Re: [gentoo-dev] Nested die error

[Olivier Crête]

On Thu, 2005-14-04 at 16:42 -0500, Caleb Tennis wrote:
> So it seems repoman doesn't like nested die calls like this:
>
> use blah && ( emake foo || die )
>
>
> But, without the parenthesis
>
> use blah && emake foo || die
>
> always dies (the emake functions just fine, but it returns an error once emake
> is completed).
>
> What's the trick?  Wrap the emake in a if/then call?  Ignore repoman at the
> risk of potential finger breakage by mr_bones'?

You can do if/then/fi or
use blah && { emake foo || die; } 

{} will not spawn a sub-shell... just execute them in the same shell so
the die will work properly

-- 
Olivier Crête
tester@g.o
x86 Security Liaison