On Sun, Jul 06, 2014 at 11:40:21PM +0000, John Burrell wrote: Hmm, some people think it is bad manners to not indicate who you are quoting. I'm well-known as a rude person myself, so not overly bothered by that, but others might be.
I also note that you had a numerical prefix on the package name which made me believe, wrongly, that this was a jhalfs problem. > > > > While yes, it's good to have consistency in xml source, a processing of > > that source should really be 'liberal in what it accepts' as input, at > > least insofar as allowing for the possibility of such spaces, surely? You > > could e.g. match on a regex such as '&&[[:blank:]]*$' or similar (depending > > on what the processing environment will accept regex-wise). > > I wrote a script to build the scripts to install the packages for each > section of BLFS (I was tempted to write after that sentence 'That lay in the > house that Jack built' but managed to stop myself!). I install as a package > user so I want to keep the configure, make and install logs. This means > removing all the && from the end of the command lines. And many of us still think that email lines should be short (somewhere around 70 characters, to allow for quoting). The reply you had about being 'liberal in what it accepts' is the best way. If your line above was shorter, I would have quoted your text about installing as a package user, and then said that was your problem - some people manage "package users" without apparent problems, on the lists we only see those who get the problems. I do not intend to imply that what you are doing (converting the book to scripts) is wrong, indeed it can often be useful, only that you should not expect the process to be simple. Personally, I have now moved to scripts using 'set -e' (probably, with hindsight, a bad move!), so none of the instructions I test before I make an edit use the '&&' which is de-rigeur in BLFS. Overall, I see no benefit in doing this - it will probably happen again. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
