Option to fail gracefully if any CUU file(s) not found in subset defined via $(CCUU) statement

[littlejackal]

Option to fail gracefully if any CUU file(s) not found in subset defined via $(CCUU) statement

[Fish-Git]

This may be too niche to justify any enhancement efforts,

Not at all! What you propose seems quite reasonable to me. IMO it's actually a bona fide bug that should be fixed. An error on any given device definition should not prevent further processing of subsequent device definitions. The bug you describe is no different than doing:

0100.cckd
0101.cckd
(0102.cckd is missing)
0103.cckd
0104.cckd
0105.cckd
0106.cckd

and Hercules failing to define devices 0103-0106 simply because 0102 encountered an error. I think you'll agree that that would be wrong. The same can therefore be said of Hercules's handling of 0100.7 3390 $(CCUU).cckd: the simple act of the definition for device 0102 failing should not cause Hercules to not define devices 0103-0107. The situation is no different IMO.

Suffice to say the bug has now been identified and fixed by commit b7fd573.

If you're interested in testing it (I already have myself, but you might want to confirm it for yourself), checkout the 'develop' branch and build that.

Thanks for reporting it, @littlejackal! You did a good job.  :)

[Fish-Git]

p.s. Your "fail=soft" idea is IMO overkill. It's not needed. As explained in my previous comment above, the behavior you described is actually incorrect behavior (i.e. a bona fide bug), so no new option is necessary.

[littlejackal]

Excellent, thank you for the feedback! The softfail option was only suggested because I wasn't sure if there was a legitimate reason for the "bug" behaviour that I just wasn't seeing, so I'm happy to go without.

Thanks for remediating; I'll definitely be giving this a test! Much appreciated.