^c now disallowed? (was Re: "cd dir && $(MAKE)", not "cd dir; $(MAKE)")

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan  2, 2003, Geoff Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> wrote:

> I do think that 'make ; ^c ; make' should work.

It mostly works.  I think the only failure scenario right now is when
running sub-configures of sub-packages fails.  There's really no way
to help this except by adding code supporting running of
sub-sub-configures in their parent Makefiles.

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