Building without stopping

Occasionally you will want to perform a slow build (in which all files are rebuilt; this process can take several hours if you have a large project). When you rebuild the entire project, you are likely to encounter many errors that scroll out the window. Additionally, if you use the default settings, Makeit stops when it encounters an error (a truly frustrating event if you left the build to run over night).

You can improve the process by using -i to ignore errors and by logging the messages to a file. First, remake all of the .Make files to be slow (use the includes target because it will run fast):

    Makeit -M includes
Then, use UNIX shell directives to redirect the standard errors and standard output to a file. For csh, use:

    Makeit -i >& makeit.log
For ksh and sh, use:

    Makeit -i >makeit.log 2>&1
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