add "set -oe" in services/makefile.sh and a configure problem will become visible. creating media/libsydneyaudio/src/Makefile creating services/Makefile creating services/crypto/Makefile creating services/crypto/tests/Makefile creating services/sync/Makefile creating services/sync/locales/Makefile creating services/sync/tests/Makefile *** Fix above errors and then restart with "gmake -f client.mk build" gmake: *** [configure] Error 1

I tried this myself (except for mingw32 I have to use set -o errexit), and by a process of elimination using echos scattered throughout, it appears the problem is not in services/makefile.sh, it's a couple of lines further on in configure (after allmakefiles.sh has been called): { mv -f config/autoconf.mk config/autoconf.mk.orig 2> /dev/null } ie: would need to use the workaround in http://www.davidpashley.com/articles/writing-robust-shell-scripts.html, since at the moment bash is correctly exiting as the return value is false. However I suspect it's opening a can of worms (who knows what else would need to be rewritten throughout configure + elsewhere), so for now I decided to turn off |set -o errexit| at the end of allmakefiles.sh (see bug 703930).

Per the bug summary, this is invalid, since there was no error in services/makefiles.sh However, a good possible breakout bug would be to investigate using |set -o errexit| in configure after making the workarounds described in comment 1, if it was deemed desirable. Suspect it may be a non-trivial amount of work though.