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On Thursday 14 April 2005 05:58 pm, Caleb Tennis wrote: |
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> On Thursday 14 April 2005 04:54 pm, Stephen Bennett wrote: |
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> > > use blah && ( emake foo || die ) |
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> > Yep, because that doesn't work. |
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> Wow. I've been doing it for years. What's broken about it, the nested die |
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> ro the "use blah &&" part? |
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as hinted elsewhere, the problem is that ( ) spawns a subshell ... that means |
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the call to 'die' aborts the sub (i.e. forked) shell, not the parent (i.e. |
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the ebuild) shell ... so when emake fails, portage wont notice |
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-mike |
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