Re: a minor annoyance with `make install'

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <199811260612.BAA18715@blastula.phys.columbia.edu>you write:
  > 
  > My build-and-torture-test script blew up today because there was a
  > typo in one of the .texi files, which caused `make install' to error
  > out halfway through, *before* the compiler had been installed.
  > Shouldn't non-essential stuff like the documentation get installed
  > after the binaries are done?
Cygnus has hacks in its tree which work in a similar manner.  ie, we do the
install and install-info as separate steps.  At least we used to, I don't know
if our releng folks still do that.

>From my standpoint it's actually been a lose.  It's meant we had to keep
hacking up other packages to build in a similar manner and when we screw it
up, we have to wait *even longer* to find out that the info files were bogus.

Personally, I'd prefer to halt the install process as early as possible when
there's an error.

jeff