gdb_mbuild -do-not-clean-up option

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 10:21:14AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In using gdb_mbuild.sh on a machine with lots of disk space (> 2gb free) 
> I've found things work even better if none of the build directories are 
> removed.  Instead relying on gdb/Makefile's dependencies to do a correct 
> re-build after a change.
> 
> To this end, I'd like to propose a new option (-n?) that indicates that 
> the directory should not be removed at the end of the build and instead 
> the target should just be [re-]made.
> 
> Thoughts, especially on the option letter?  I don't like -n that much. 
> -k is already taken for `make -k'.
> 
> Thoughts?

Don't fight for short option names.  How about "--keep"?

> --
> 
> While at it, given the SH:
> 
> 	make | tee logfile
> 
> does anyone know of a way to determine the exit status of the `make' 
> instead of the `tee'?

When I need to do this, I do something like:
  rm -f gdb/gdb || true
  make 2>&1 | tee logfile
  test -f gdb/gdb
  echo $?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer