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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	paulus@au.ibm.com, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] powerpc: Do not fail build if mkimage is not available
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:14:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071227101404.2C05F2405E@gemini.denx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Dec 2007 17:08:51 +0100." <200712261708.51432.mb@bu3sch.de>

In message <200712261708.51432.mb@bu3sch.de> you wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 December 2007 17:03:43 Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> writes:
> > 
> > > +    set +e
> > >      mkimage -A ppc -O linux -T kernel -C gzip -a 00000000 -e 00000000 \
> > >  	$uboot_version -d "$vmz" "$ofile"
> > > +    [ $? -eq 0 ] || exit 0
> > > +    set -e
> > 
> > mkimage ... || exit 0
> 
> Could you PLEASE increase your verbosity?
> Why is mkimage || exit 0 any better than my test?

Because it works, while your's doesn't.

Make runs each command in a new shell. Your "set +e" is in vain,  and
so is your test of the return code.

Um... doesn't make throw  an  error  anyway  when  the  execution  of
mkimage fails?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-27 10:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-26 15:55 [PATCH v2] powerpc: Do not fail build if mkimage is not available Michael Buesch
2007-12-26 16:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-26 16:08   ` Michael Buesch
2007-12-26 16:19     ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-27 10:14     ` Wolfgang Denk [this message]
2007-12-27 10:17       ` Andreas Schwab
2007-12-27 18:13       ` Michael Buesch

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