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Re: Patch checked in for K&R stage1 cc on obtabs.c
- To: craig at jcb-sc dot com
- Subject: Re: Patch checked in for K&R stage1 cc on obtabs.c
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at upchuck dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:43:41 -0600
- cc: donn at interix dot com, oliva at dcc dot unicamp dot br, tromey at cygnus dot com, egcs-patches at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990526014232.21398.qmail@deer>you write:
> >Err. make bootstrap2, make bootstrap3, make all will restart things at
> >different stages just fine.
>
> The issue, I believe, is whether
>
> # make bootstrap > foo.log 2>&1
> ... some random amount of time passes ...
> ^C
> # make bootstrap >> foo.log 2>&1
>
> is assured of working, just as it would be for "make all" for most
> any other GNU product.
>
> I believe that it isn't -- that, currently, the user has to determine
> how far the build proceeded so as to "compute" the correct "make" target
> in the second make command to get things started again. And that's
> counter to the `make' philosophy, as well as to ease-of-use issues.
Yea. That would be nice. I'll put it on the rewrite list.
jeff