Spider wrote: [Wed Nov 19 2003, 11:48:20AM EST] > Don't emake and econf both fail if they fail, making || die "" > unnecessary and even impossible?
It's really poor practice to depend on this. I argued against this
change and was ignored. Here are some reasons:
- Calling die from econf/emake defeats the function and line number
reporting that are part of die.
- Developers have to keep track of which ebuild.sh functions call
die and which ones don't. It's really better to leave the error
handling in the ebuild in all cases so that the practice is simply
to call die in all situations where it is appropriate.
Aron
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