On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 12:51 PM Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2024-03-26 at 11:01 -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > meson.build has some logic to build ia32 EFI binaries on x86_64 if the
> > toolchain is compatible. Rather than trying to reproduce this logic in
> > the ebuild, just try to build it and ignore any failures.
> >
> > If meson.build actually defines the targets but we have some other
> > compile error, this will move the failure to the install phase instead.
> >
>
> That's not a correct use of nonfatal.  It is supposed to be used to
> provide customized error handling (e.g. cleanup step before dying), not
> a cheap way to ignore errors.

I disagree; the error will not go unhandled, it's just being deferred
until later.

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