Re: bmake not killing childrens

[Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It would be nice if someone worked on  bmake to make conversion. just 
for the convenience sakes. bmake is annoying, particularly if you use 
NetBSD in a bunch of places.

Petr

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.
>
> 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
>
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