Re: bmake not killing childrens

[Bill Hacker <wbh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Victor Balada Diaz wrote:

> Hi,
> some of you may have noticed that sometimes when you type Ctrl + C
> to stop bmake it doesn't stop. I find that behaviour annoying so
> i created this patch[1] to solve it.

I find 'hard to stop' annoying enough in general to always have a second session 
open, uusally with 'top' in it...

A 'kill -9 <bmake's PID>' or a 'killall <bmake's executable name>'

- can cause just as much joy - or damage - without need of a patch to anything.

And fits *almost all known* executables as well...

(some modes of DJB's 'daemontools' are hard to find, but those aren't used by 
grownups anyway).

;-)

> This patch disables make compatibility mode, so some things WILL
> break. bmake unit tests is an example of this. So to install the new
> bmake you'll need to cp /usr/pkgsrc/devel/bmake/work/DragonFly/bmake
> to /usr/pkg/bin/bmake
>
> I've tried it compiling mule-ucs package and seems that bmake with
> the patch did his job fine, but it may break things, so use with
> caution.
>
> Also it would be great if someone who knows bmake internals could
> find a better and definitive solution.
>
> [1]: http://bsdes.net/~victor/dfbsd/bmake/main.c.patch