I had a ChangeLog file that was a dangling symlink, pointing into an unwritable directory. It took 30s longer to diagnose the failure than it should have, hence this patch.
>From 847359b11d75df47a611ce9214246af7a62ac5e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:20:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] build: stop earlier if touching ChangeLog fails * bootstrap.conf: Exit right away if touching ChangeLog fails. Otherwise, the touch failure message is buried under configure output. --- bootstrap.conf | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/bootstrap.conf b/bootstrap.conf index 991e5bd..7ec4b3b 100644 --- a/bootstrap.conf +++ b/bootstrap.conf @@ -316,4 +316,4 @@ tar - " # Automake requires that ChangeLog exist. -touch ChangeLog +touch ChangeLog || exit 1 -- 1.6.4.1.341.gf2a44
