ports/64037 and the alleged && -> ; failure from March 2002

Oliver Eikemeier eikemeier at fillmore-labs.com
Fri Mar 12 16:58:56 PST 2004


Matthias Andree wrote:

> I filed PR #64037 with a patch for a port that fuyuki maintains. My
> patch included changing the ";" in "cd some dir ; some command " to "&&"
> in shell command lines was refused by the maintainer, [...]

I don't agree with the arguments, but I don't understand

- Switch from ; to && in order to not hide cd errors or run the make command in
  the wrong directory.

either. Both give

  cd: can't cd to /nonexistent
  *** Error code 2

and stop the build, or do you do use make -i regularly?



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