Subject: bug#45279: [core-updates] copy-recursively does not throw an error on missing directory

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 12:03:21 +0100

Hi,

Marius Bakke <[email-masked]> skribis:

> On the 'core-updates' branch, using copy-recursively on a nonexistent
> directory does not cause a build failure.  Instead an error is printed
> and the script continues:
>
>   (copy-recursively "doesnotexist" output)
>   [...]
>   starting phase `install'
>   i/o error: doesnotexist: No such file or directory
>   phase `install' succeeded after 0.0 seconds
>
> This is on cc6cb6e80a42355147809b4830053a34d1563994.

I think it’s always been this way.  Do you think we should change it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.