Poor error handling in `cat nonexistentfile` (was: Re: crosstool0.38)

[Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>]

Greg Chandler wrote:
> While trying to build:
> eval `cat arm-xscale.dat gcc-3.4.2-glibc-20040827.dat` sh all.sh --notest
>
> I get:
> + TARBALLS_DIR=/home/chandleg/downloads
> + RESULT_TOP=/usr/crosstool
> + export TARBALLS_DIR RESULT_TOP
> + GCC_LANGUAGES=c,c++
> + export GCC_LANGUAGES
> + mkdir -p /usr/crosstool
> ++ cat arm-xscale.dat gcc-3.4.2-glibc-20040827.dat
> cat: gcc-3.4.2-glibc-20040827.dat: No such file or directory
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> + eval 'KERNELCONFIG=`pwd`/arm.config' TARGET=arm-xscale-linux-gnu
> 'TARGET_CFLAGS="-O"' 'GCC_EXTRA_CONFIG="--with-cpu=xscale'
> '--enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=xscale"' sh all.sh --notest
> +++ pwd
> ++ KERNELCONFIG=/usr/src/crosstool-0.38/arm.config
> ++ TARGET=arm-xscale-linux-gnu
> ++ TARGET_CFLAGS=-O
> ++ GCC_EXTRA_CONFIG=--with-cpu=xscale --enable-cxx-flags=-mcpu=xscale
> ++ sh all.sh --notest
> Please set BINUTILS_DIR to the bare filename of the binutils tarball or
> directory

Yep.  You referenced a file that doesn't exist.

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