diff --git a/docs/quickstart.rst b/docs/quickstart.rst
index e2488f2a..aae80707 100644
--- a/docs/quickstart.rst
+++ b/docs/quickstart.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ command. The information below should be enough to get you started, but see the
    The ``SANDBOX`` value is a path to where the test suite build products and
    results will be stored (inside a timestamped directory, by default).
 
+   We recommend adding ``--build-tool-options "-k"`` (if you are using ``make``)
+   or ``--build-tool-options "-k 0"`` (if you are using ``ninja``). This ensures
+   that the build tool carries on building even if there is a compilation
+   failure in one of the tests. Without these options, every test after the
+   compilation failure will not be compiled and will be reported as a missing
+   executable.
+
 #. On most systems, the execution time results will be a bit noisy. There are
    a range of things you can do to reduce noisiness (with LNT runtest test-suite
    command line options when available between brackets):
diff --git a/lnt/tests/test_suite.py b/lnt/tests/test_suite.py
index d4e5290a..eb7eeecd 100644
--- a/lnt/tests/test_suite.py
+++ b/lnt/tests/test_suite.py
@@ -580,7 +580,8 @@ def _build(self, path):
                               '--build', '.',
                               '-t', target,
                               '-j', str(self._build_threads())] +
-                             ([] if self.opts.succinct else ["-v"]),
+                             ([] if self.opts.succinct else ["-v"]) +
+                             ["--"] + shlex.split(self.opts.build_tool_options),
                              cwd=subdir)
         except subprocess.CalledProcessError:
             # cmake is expected to exit with code 1 if there was any build
@@ -1168,6 +1169,9 @@ def diagnose(self):
 @click.option("--use-make", "make", metavar="PATH",
               type=click.UNPROCESSED,
               help="Path to the build system tool [make/ninja/...]")
+@click.option("--build-tool-options",
+              help="Options to pass to the build system tool",
+              type=click.UNPROCESSED)
 @click.option("--use-lit", "lit", metavar="PATH", type=click.UNPROCESSED,
               default="llvm-lit",
               help="Path to the LIT test runner [llvm-lit]")