change in system call in 1.8.1?

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Wed Oct 7 21:38:29 PDT 2009


On Oct 7, 2009, at 23:35, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:

>> Most ports use " && " instead of "; " as a separator but it doesn't  
>> matter much.
>
> There is a very important difference.  && will stop the chain of  
> commands if one is found to be unsuccessful.

Yes, that's the difference. But presumably by the time a port author  
has produced a working port and committed it, it works, so there's not  
much difference anymore.



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