Re: gnu make patch

2009-01-14 Thread Martin d Anjou
Hey Martin, sorry for the delay when it came to posting this patch. No problem Alfred, and thanks! Here is a small patch that adds a new option to make that causes make to abort after N failures. Martin suggest that -k should take an extra argument where the user can tell make to abort after

proposal: stop_at_err_count patch

2009-01-30 Thread Martin d Anjou
Hello GNU make gurus, Instead of the patch proposed here: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2009-01/msg7.html I would like to propose the patch below instead. The difference is that I renamed keep_going_count to stop_at_err_count which I think is more descriptive of the intent. I

Re: proposal: stop_at_err_count patch

2009-01-30 Thread Martin d Anjou
Hello, The patch I posted earlier is poorly formatted, so I am trying an attachment instead. After talking with Alfred (ams on #gnu), we decided to revert the feature name back to the keep_going_count, because "it keeps the count of how many times it has gone through an error". And after thi