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

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

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;