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- From: simonson@cs.washington.edu (Kevin Simonson)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
- Subject: Getting a.make to Stop on its First Compilation Error
- Summary: How do I get it to?
- Keywords: verdix a.make error abort
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.201939.900@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:19:39 GMT
- Article-I.D.: beaver.1992Sep4.201939.900
- Sender: news@beaver.cs.washington.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
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- In the project I'm working on, I've been making extensive use of Ver-
- dix's "a.make" to recompile only those files that have become obsolete
- since the last compilation.
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- This works fine when there are no errors in the code, but if there
- _are_ errors, then after "a.make" reports those errors, it merrily goes on
- its way trying to compile the rest of the files. In my case, those other
- files usually bomb too, for the simple reason that they usually depend on
- the file that caused the first error.
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- I've gone through the man pages provided by "a.help a.make", but I
- can't find any option that directs "a.make" to abort execution as soon as
- it finds the first error, and not go on to the other files.
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- Does anybody know how I would go about doing this? Thanks.
-
- ---Kevin Simonson
-