[tlbuild] Report install-tl errors on top level?

[Norbert Preining]

On Mi, 03 Jun 2009, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
> +  if (defined($::LOGFILE) && grep(/Error:/i,$::LOGFILE)) {
> +    print "There were errors during installation!"
> +    exit 1;
> +  }
>    exit 0;
> 
> ? Problem is that this doesn't work, it never goes to the error message,
> and i don't know enough Perl to fix it.

The problem is at that point the log file has already been written, and
$::LOGFILE is a filehandle which you cannot grep. One could grep in
@::LOGLINES, but as I said, at that point the lines are already flushed
to the log file.

I have put your suggestion on the TODO list, maybe I find a working
solution.

Best wishes

Norbert

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