Build system - why kill other arch builds?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 14:31 -0600, Bryan Stillwell wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 04:23:59PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> >On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 14:18 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> >> It looks like when the build system encounters an error on one 
> >> architecture, it kills the builds on the other archs.  What is the 
> >> reason for this?  I would find it helpful to know if the build would 
> >> have succeeded on the other architectures.
> >
> >
> >It does this so that we don't waste time on the builds of a failed
> >package. Any arch failure for a package fails the other arches.
> 
> I'm with Orion on this one.  When debugging a problem with a package, it
> definately helps to know if the problem is localized to an architecture
> or if it's an arch-neutral problem.  Maybe this could be made
> configurable?

Think of the alternative: You want to wait for 8 hours while open office
on i386 builds even though we know the build failed in the prep-stage
for ppc?

-sv