URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?41781>
Summary: Provide a fast fail path when a target is
compromized during a parallel build
Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Wed 05 Mar 2014 04:51:33 PM UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Enhancement
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
Component Version: 4.0
Operating System: Any
Fixed Release: None
Triage Status: None
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Details:
In continuous integration systems, fast failure without recovery is a highly
desirable behavior. As such, I would like to see GNU Make completely abort
fast at the first failure.
During automated parallel builds with make -j <N>, make attemps to build as
much as it possibly can, and even when some targets fail, GNU Make continues.
This is the exact opposite of a fast failure.
In continuous integration systems, there is no value in doing incremental
builds: each new build starts from scratch. This ensures stability and
reproducibility.
A patch was proposed in 2009
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2009-01/msg00035.html, I wuold like
to see this integrated in GNU Make.
There is some background reading material:
http://ninjaverification.wordpress.com/tag/gnu-make/
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2009-02/msg00010.html
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