On Tue, 2016-08-30 at 14:45 +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 30/08/2016 11:28, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm curious on what the intent of having the -k parameter in make -k check. > > To this point in time I always thought it was to continue with the tests > > even > > after unexpected test failures. But after removing the -k, the only error > > I got early on was > > > > autogen -T ../../fixincludes/check.tpl ../../fixincludes/inclhack.def > > make[2]: autogen: Command not found > > > > which caused an early halt. > > With autogen installed, make check seemed to complete all the tests even > > though not all of them were successful. > We do not give any recipe for autogen, so it is assumed that it is > not installed, hence the "-k", to prevent "make check" from failing > early. > > Pierre > >
Yes, but should that not be explained in the text? i.e. Why we are doing it. Wayne. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
