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On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:29:13PM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote: |
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> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:58:02PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:36:29PM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote: |
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> > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:22:26PM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh) wrote: |
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> > > > src_install() { |
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> > > > doman bti.1 |
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> > > > dobin bti |
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> > > > dodoc bti.example README RELEASE-NOTES |
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> > > > } |
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> > > You really should have some or all of these functions die on failure. |
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> > |
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> > Why would any of these fail if the src_compile succeeded? |
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> "Succeeded" and "Not error out" are different. Src_compile could not |
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> error out but still not produce the executables/produce an executable |
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> with a different name. Either way you end up with a broken installation |
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> of bti. |
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> > And, for some reason I thought that the default was that if there was an |
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> > error in them, they would "die" on their own. Is that not the case? |
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> No, they don't die on their own. As far as I know, very few ebuild |
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> functions do. Econf does, and epatch does as well. I'll look into |
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> writing up a list of which functions die and which don't though, for |
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> convenience. |
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Ok, thanks for the information, I appreciate it. |
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greg k-h |
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