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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/silence_xargs_when_hothasktags_not_installed.mdwn | 7 |
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diff --git a/doc/todo/silence_xargs_when_hothasktags_not_installed.mdwn b/doc/todo/silence_xargs_when_hothasktags_not_installed.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..ff34006a --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/todo/silence_xargs_when_hothasktags_not_installed.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +Please consider merging branch `hothasktags` of my repo `https://git.spwhitton.name/propellor` + +Moves the `2>/dev/null` redirection in the Makefile rule for `tags` in order to silence xargs if hothasktags is not installed (avoids `xargs: hothasktags: No such file or directory`). + +I assume that your originally intention was not to cause an error if hothasktags is not installed, since you have `|| true` at the end of the line. However, someone trying to build propellor's Debian package saw the error output from xargs and thought it meant hothasktags should be a build-dep. This patch prevents someone thinking that. + +-- [[spwhitton|https://spwhitton.name]] |