Bug #268398 - Document econf's automatic die behavior.

svn path=/main/trunk/; revision=13600

diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index b541b404881901ab81115b9eae34056670527c2c..e116ea249eefaabd85f3fab3da11b3e4ca0d572f 100644 (file)
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -738,11 +738,12 @@ ${\fIECONF_SOURCE\fR:-.}/configure \\
        \-\-sysconfdir=/etc \\
        \-\-localstatedir=/var/lib \\
        \fI${EXTRA_ECONF}\fR \\
-       \fIconfigure options\fR
+       \fIconfigure options\fR || die "econf failed"
 .fi
 Note that the \fIEXTRA_ECONF\fR is for users only, not for ebuild
 writers.  If you wish to pass more options to configure, just pass the
-extra arguements to \fBeconf\fR.
+extra arguements to \fBeconf\fR. Also note that \fBeconf\fR automatically
+calls \fBdie\fR if the configure script fails.
 .TP
 \fBemake\fR \fI[make options]\fR
 This is used as a replacement for make.  Performs 'make ${MAKEOPTS}