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From: Thomas Sachau <tommy@g.o>
To: gregkh@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-misc/bti: bti-007.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml Manifest
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:17:26
Message-Id: 4904EC6A.5070303@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-misc/bti: bti-007.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml Manifest by Greg KH
1 Greg KH schrieb:
2 >>> src_install() {
3 >>> doman bti.1
4 >>> dobin bti
5 >>> dodoc bti.example README RELEASE-NOTES
6 >>> }
7 >> You really should have some or all of these functions die on failure.
8 >
9 > Why would any of these fail if the src_compile succeeded?
10
11 What happens, if upstream changes the name of the binary on version bump or changes the compile
12 output location?
13
14 >
15 > And, for some reason I thought that the default was that if there was an
16 > error in them, they would "die" on their own. Is that not the case?
17
18 Sadly not. Some functions do die (like epatch or econf), others do not (like emake, dobin,
19 doman....). If i remember correctly, those that are external functions do die, the others do not.
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22 --
23 Thomas Sachau
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25 Gentoo Linux Developer

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