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Date:      Thu, 27 Feb 1997 03:10:20 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami)
Cc:        imp@village.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: make -k oddities
Message-ID:  <199702270310.DAA01353@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <199702262339.PAA03965@vader.cs.berkeley.edu> from Satoshi Asami at "Feb 26, 97 03:39:12 pm"

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>  * We don't have FETCH_COOKIE, and if we did the dependency would cause
>  * make -k to skip the build as expected.
> 
> This has nothing to do with cookies, Adam.  Look at the "fetch:"
> target, and see how it returns 0 if "make -k" doesn't report failure.
> Now look at the other targets (with my proposed patch), and see how
> the cookies will be created anyway if "make -k" doesn't report
> failure.

I had a hypothetical bsd.port.mk in mind, creating *_COOKIE at a deeper level.
My eyelids were snapping shut after a long day and I missed seeing that the
return value of the inner make is just as significant in this context.
I withdraw my previous comment as non-applicable.

Adam



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