Feature Request: `pyodide build-recipes` to support `--continue`

[Andrej730]

As pyodide build-recipes is the main method that's used for building recipes (e.g. in https://pyodide.org/en/0.28.3/development/building-packages-using-recipe.html), would be nice if it would also have --install argument (that's very useful for debugging) and would propagate it to build-recipes-no-deps it's calling in code below:

pyodide-build/pyodide_build/recipe/graph_builder.py

Lines 167 to 192 in bdd0b14

	p = subprocess.run(
	[
	*run_prefix,
	"pyodide",
	"build-recipes-no-deps",
	self.name,
	"--recipe-dir",
	str(self.pkgdir.parent),
	f"--cflags={build_args.cflags}",
	f"--cxxflags={build_args.cxxflags}",
	f"--ldflags={build_args.ldflags}",
	f"--target-install-dir={build_args.target_install_dir}",
	f"--host-install-dir={build_args.host_install_dir}",
	f"--build-dir={build_dir}",
	# Either this package has been updated and this doesn't
	# matter, or this package is dependent on a package that has
	# been updated and should be rebuilt even though its own
	# files haven't been updated.
	"--force-rebuild",
	# We already did the rust setup in buildall
	"--skip-rust-setup",
	],
	check=False,
	stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL,
	stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL,
	)

As a temporary hack you can change default value for continue option in build-recipes-no-deps from False to True (see code below), then your pyodide build-recipes will kind of have --continue option by default.

https://github.com/pyodide/pyodide-build/blob/bdd0b1422064de6d92264a08c599e85001a28567/pyodide_build/cli/build_recipes.py#L97C5-L101

[ryanking13]

Thanks for the suggestion. I would say if there is an issue with the package build, one should use build-recipes-no-deps instead of build-recipes as building a single package is easier to debug. We should have a better documentation though.