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Re: cygport: broken vs. autotools by "set -e"
- From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:50:27 +0000
- Subject: Re: cygport: broken vs. autotools by "set -e"
- References: <4F18AB1B.7020207@gmail.com>
On Thu 19 Jan 2012, Dave Korn wrote:
> Commenting-out the "set -e;" line at the start of /usr/bin/cygport
> has fixed this problem, and my builds now run just fine, but huh? I
> checked in git; that line has been there since like forever, so why is
> it giving me trouble now? Is there something I could have changed in
> my environment or startup scripts that is causing this -e to propagate
> to subshells that it didn't used to, or did there used to be a
> mechanism in cygport that would have had the effect of turning it off
> for subshells that has now been removed for some reason?
Hi Dave,
As a WAG it could be that you have differences in behaviour from
updating bash - check the docs for 'set -e' changes in bash 4.x
AndyM
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