On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:43:47AM -0400, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> It is very important to catch errors from shell commands. We have basically
> no error checking within the scripts, as the "set -e" is guaranteed to
> catch anything unexpected. These scripts are difficult to debug since
> errors are usually encountered by novices, so this kind of thorough
> checking is important.

You are right.

> If you temporarily need to disable error checking, then this can be done
> locally, by disabling and then re-enabling error checking.

This is what I did, but not locally because I wanted to trigger a
recompile on jenkins to see if the error checking was indeed the
problem. It was, and a proper (and hopefully working) alternative
solution is already in place, assuming I caught all places where this
happened. Jenkins will tell.

Frank

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