Makefile error handling

[Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com>]

I was curious why there is no '-' in front of some commands in 
ddp/manuals.sgml/Makefile:

___ (NOW) ___
$(SUBDIRS):
        $(MAKE) -C $@

$(SUBDIRS-publish):
        $(MAKE) -C $(subst -publish,,$@) publish $(publish_args)

$(SUBDIRS-clean):
        $(MAKE) -C $(subst -clean,,$@) clean

___ (WHY NOT THIS) ___
$(SUBDIRS):
        -$(MAKE) -C $@

$(SUBDIRS-publish):
        -$(MAKE) -C $(subst -publish,,$@) publish $(publish_args)

$(SUBDIRS-clean):
        -$(MAKE) -C $(subst -clean,,$@) clean

This way, even if one of the package is bad, it builds rest of them. 

Osamu :)
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+  Osamu Aoki <debian@aokiconsulting.com> @ Cupertino, CA USA         +