One thing I'd love to see in the generic-build-script, is: set -e
instead of all the horrible && \ stuff. This would make it easier to indent, reformat, add comments and greatly reduce the noise level. "set -e" works just fine in both ash and bash. It can also be turned off and on in functions if necessary. Here's how it works: Suppose you have: ----------- #!/bin/sh true true false echo unreached... ------------ This prints "unreached...". Changint to: ----------- #!/bin/sh set -e true true false echo unreached... ----------- Makes the script exit with status 1 at the "false" line. It also works a bit like "use strict;" and -w in Perl, in that it forces keeping track of commands in the script that exit with a non-zero status. So in the artificial example above, if we don't want to exit at the false line, something like: false || true works, and marks the command as possibly failing. Anyway, just a pet peeve, feel free to ignore me :) -- Rafael
