Re: Re:
Chris Lee (chris@elfhame.net)
Thu, 25 Jul 2002 15:25:45 -0500
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 14:55:57 -0500 (CDT), Dan Ramaley said:
> > As I said, separating commands with semicolons does not stop them from running
> > in sequence no matter what. As SB said, separating with && (logical and) will
> > stop the entire command chain when one process does not exit cleanly. This is
> > a feature of your shell, not AfterStep's Makefile. IIRC AfterStep builds all
> > of its modules and libraries as separate make targets, which means that just
> > because 'gcc ... -o afterstep ..." fails does not mean that the rest of the
> > targets will not be built. However, it does interest me that 'make all' did
> > not fail, so I'll bring it up next time I talk to sasha or someone. :)
>
> Actually, when i install it, i don't do "./configure ; make ; make
> install" with semi-colons, but i do:
> ./configure
> make
> make install
> and visually inspect the last screen or so of output to see if there was
> an error before i run the next command.
Another way to ensure a clean make is to direct the console output to a log
file as SB suggested and then grep it for "Error". This has saved me a few
times on XFree86 builds. :)
>
> > Thanks again for your patience, and again I apologize that you did not find
> > assistance sooner. Good luck. :)
>
> Thank you for your responses and politeness. I'm going out of town this
> weekend, but as i said in a previous message, next week i'll try again
> to get AfterStep running.
>
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peace,
Chris -- a.k.a. LabMonkey
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