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authorZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2009-05-03 20:02:46 +0000
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2009-05-03 20:02:46 +0000
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Bug #268398 - Document econf's automatic die behavior.
svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=13600
-rw-r--r--man/ebuild.55
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index b541b4048..e116ea249 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -738,11 +738,12 @@ ${\fIECONF_SOURCE\fR:-.}/configure \\
\-\-sysconfdir=/etc \\
\-\-localstatedir=/var/lib \\
\fI${EXTRA_ECONF}\fR \\
- \fIconfigure options\fR
+ \fIconfigure options\fR || die "econf failed"
.fi
Note that the \fIEXTRA_ECONF\fR is for users only, not for ebuild
writers. If you wish to pass more options to configure, just pass the
-extra arguements to \fBeconf\fR.
+extra arguements to \fBeconf\fR. Also note that \fBeconf\fR automatically
+calls \fBdie\fR if the configure script fails.
.TP
\fBemake\fR \fI[make options]\fR
This is used as a replacement for make. Performs 'make ${MAKEOPTS}