Re: [boost] Stop on first error

Subject: Re: [boost] Stop on first error
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-14 12:33:07

Vladimir Prus:
> So, how about we do what the rest of the world does, and stop build of C++ 
> Boost on the first error?

It seems to me that this only works well if a typical bjam invocation is 
considered an all or nothing proposition. This is not true for running 
tests, when there are expected failures, and it may well not be true for 
building Boost on "non-release" platforms, where some libraries may fail to 
build. It obviously is true for projects where the final target depends on 
everything else, but Boost is not such a project.