[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in net-misc/bti: bti-007.ebuild ChangeLog metadata.xml Manifest

[Greg KH <gregkh@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 06:29:13PM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 02:58:02PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:36:29PM -0400, Thomas Anderson wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 05:22:26PM +0000, Greg Kroah-Hartman (gregkh) wrote:
> > > > src_install() {
> > > > 	doman bti.1
> > > > 	dobin bti
> > > > 	dodoc bti.example README RELEASE-NOTES
> > > > }
> > > You really should have some or all of these functions die on failure.
> > 
> > Why would any of these fail if the src_compile succeeded?
> "Succeeded" and "Not error out" are different. Src_compile could not
> error out but still not produce the executables/produce an executable
> with a different name. Either way you end up with a broken installation
> of bti.
> > And, for some reason I thought that the default was that if there was an
> > error in them, they would "die" on their own.  Is that not the case?
> No, they don't die on their own. As far as I know, very few ebuild
> functions do. Econf does, and epatch does as well. I'll look into
> writing up a list of which functions die and which don't though, for
> convenience.

Ok, thanks for the information, I appreciate it.

greg k-h