-q tells jam to stop on first error. -a tells it to try and recompile even stuff that doesn't need to be updated. Thus if you don't include -q it will try and build as much as it can and skip over anything that causes an error. It's not a problem of -q per se, it's doing exactly what's expected. On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Luposian <luposian@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Now, this is interesting... > > If I type "jam -q haiku-image", it spews and quits in about 1 second, with > the same stuff as before. > If I type "jam -a -q haiku-image", it does the exact same thing. > If I type "jam haiku-image", it skips a bunch of stuff, but it continues on > doing the things it can. > If I type "jam -a haiku-image", it skips over a TON of things, but > continues on things it can. > > The -q parameter seems to be causing/invoking the problem. But why? And > why is Jam skipping stuff now? In every incident where it started skipping > stuff, it ended up never finishing the JAM and the Haiku image was never > done. Is "skipping..." now acceptable or will I likely see the same result > and no image of Haiku in the end? > > Should I just try deleting the whole /trunk directory and starting over? > > Luposian > > >