build system: small fix for "release" target to work

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Makefile.custom b/Makefile.custom
index 816bee5db..e976e739e 100644
--- a/Makefile.custom
+++ b/Makefile.custom
@@ -46,17 +46,17 @@ check test: busybox
 release: distclean
         cd ..; \
         rm -r -f busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION); \
-        cp -a busybox busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) && \
+        cp -a busybox busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION) && { \
         find busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)/ -type d \
                 -name .svn \
                 -print \
-                -exec rm -r -f {} \; && \
+                -exec rm -r -f {} \; ; \
         find busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)/ -type f \
                 -name .\#* \
                 -print \
-                -exec rm -f {} \; && \
+                -exec rm -f {} \; ; \
         tar -czf busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION).tar.gz \
-                busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)/;
+                busybox-$(VERSION).$(PATCHLEVEL).$(SUBLEVEL)$(EXTRAVERSION)/ ; }
 
 .PHONY: checkhelp
 checkhelp:
diff --git a/libbb/recursive_action.c b/libbb/recursive_action.c
index 05ff5d84f..121a3dffd 100644
--- a/libbb/recursive_action.c
+++ b/libbb/recursive_action.c
@@ -93,6 +93,10 @@ int recursive_action(const char *fileName,
 
         dir = opendir(fileName);
         if (!dir) {
+                /* findutils-4.1.20 reports this */
+                /* (i.e. it doesn't silently return with exit code 1) */
+                /* To trigger: "find -exec rm -rf {} \;" */
+                bb_perror_msg("%s", fileName);
                 return FALSE;
         }
         status = TRUE;