Re: [boost] Stop on first error

Subject: Re: [boost] Stop on first error
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-14 10:28:52

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Presently, when building Boost, the build process does not stop if an error
> has occurred. This is behaviour we inherited, and it differs from every
> other build system out there. We had quite a number of users confused where
> build ends with "failed N targets", with the original error scrolled away --
> it is not apparent what has caused the error, and often, the error is not even
> available from console program history.
>
> While experienced users might prefer being able to kick a build, go to lunch,
> and then fix a couple of failures in the middle of the build, ordinary users
> don't like it so much. So, how about we do what the rest of the world does,
> and stop build of C++ Boost on the first error?
>
> Comments?
>

Perhaps we can document and say "add -q to the bjam invocation if you
want the build to stop on the first error".

Although I agree this would be nice to have as the default behavior.

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