On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 2:49 AM, <mikko.rap...@bmw.de> wrote: > This reminded me of the problems I've seen with various oe-core shell scripts: > they are missing systematic error handling. > > IMO using bash and 'set -euxo pipefail' are a good approach to catch errors > early in shell scripts. Manually checking for $? is error prone and things > like pipes can hide them. Using undefined variables is another thing > which should fail early before things go horribly wrong. And in build > automation > I'd rather see output of -x since things can fail in mysterious ways. > And then there's quoting.... > > One useful guide is to use shellcheck as static analysis tool for shell > scripts. > > I guess internally bitbake uses at least set -e. > > Comments?
all these are good suggestions, I would recommend to open bugs for all of these some of them might need to cite the scripts which need fixing. -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
