On 03/12/2011 06:00 PM, Dan McGhee wrote:
>
> One thing I want it to do is recover from a failed 'make' or 'install'
> without have to run the whole script again. This feature *used to*
> work. It now doesn't. If everything is OK, the script runs from the
> beginning to the successful end of a build. But if there is a
> "glitch," the recovery doesn't happen.
I'm replying to my own original post. Needed to have some stuff that
the others "snipped" to show the error of my ways. The script was doing
exactly what I told it to do. There were no problems with variables,
syntax or exit status.
What I didn't put in my original post, and this is my personal logic
error, is that when I exited the script after "make," simulating a
failed "install," it started at "make" again and not "install." Please
look at the following sequence.
> # This one recovers from failed "make."
> if [ -e $logdir/make-`echo $package`.err ] && \
> [ ! -e $logdir/install-`echo $package`.err ]; then
>
> # This one recovers from a failed install
> if [ -e $logdir/make-`echo $package`.log ] && \
> [ ! -e $HOME/$package-files.list ]; then
>
> # This one does everything through configure, make, make install
> if [ ! -e $logdir ]; then
>
The order is failed make, failed install and fresh build. If the
"install" fails after "make," the conditions exist to "make,"and the
script will start there. So the order of the first two tests needed to
be reversed. I did that and everything works the way I want it to.
Thanks, Aleksandar and Neal, for your inputs. My syntax is now more
elegant in addition to working. I learned a "trick" from the Advanced
Bash Scripting Guide that proved to me that everything was as it should
be except what I wanted the script to do.
I had inspected and made sure that all the files and directories existed
and had the right names. They did. But that didn't mean that the tests
were parsing everything correctly, so I wanted to do something to test
the test. I stumbled on this which is exactly what I needed:
if [ -e $file ]; then
echo "$file exists"
else
echo "$file does not exist"
fi
Inserting two loops like this to check my tests is what lead me to
realize that the test order was not correct.
Once again, thanks for the responses. I learned quite a bit.
Dan
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