[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As we discussed a day or two ago, here is a patch that cleans up the following aspects of the generic build script (today's CVS version):
- Replaces all instances of 'if [ ! -d xxx ] ; then mkdir -p xxx ; fi' with just 'mkdir -p xxx'. The second form is equivalent but simpler.
As long as everyone knows that "mkdir -p xxx" suppresses errors when xxx already exists, in addition to creating all intervening dirs in the dirpath xxx. ("mkdir xxx" will exit-with-error if xxx exists)
Is this behavior true on all platforms? (I know gbs doesn't directly support cross-compiling, but it actually doesn't require too much modification to do so, at present).
- Adds -r to every invocation of xargs. In every case this is desirable and will prevent errors in null cases.
Do you mean "--no-run-if-empty" ? I can't find any documentation of a "-r" flag to xargs...
P.S. Thanks for doing this. Your effort is appreciated.
-- Chuck
