How to exit from find -exec if it fails on one of the files

Question

I want to run the command

find some/path -exec program \\{} \\; 

but I want the find command to quit as soon as the command

Answer 1

Here is my example for a "build system", which stops after hitting the first compiler error (based on Kojiro's answer, which did not exaclty work for me):

(The need for escaped parentheses is real. I know that hurts.)

find -name '*.cpp' \( -print -a -exec g++ -c {} \; -o -quit \)

I want to build a static library of basically all C++ files located in the current directory and below.

Before running the compiler I want to have the file -print-ed, then -exec-ed, but when it fails (and leaves errors on stderr, it should -quit.

-a is like && and -o is like || in shell or C.

Without the parentheses, GNU find "optimizes" the query, by trying the most probable condition first, which is -- I guess -- -quit.