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Date:      Sat, 13 Mar 2004 01:55:05 +0100
From:      Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
To:        Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports/64037 and the alleged && -> ; failure from March 2002
Message-ID:  <40525BE9.2050208@fillmore-labs.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040313002807.GA13745@merlin.emma.line.org>
References:  <20040313002807.GA13745@merlin.emma.line.org>

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Matthias Andree wrote:

> I filed PR #64037 with a patch for a port that fuyuki maintains. My
> patch included changing the ";" in "cd some dir ; some command " to "&&"
> in shell command lines was refused by the maintainer, [...]

I don't agree with the arguments, but I don't understand

- Switch from ; to && in order to not hide cd errors or run the make command in
  the wrong directory.

either. Both give

  cd: can't cd to /nonexistent
  *** Error code 2

and stop the build, or do you do use make -i regularly?



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