rpm build prevention when there are syntactic errors in perl/shell script

Question

We package only Perl and shell scripts in an rpm.We use maven to build the rpm. I would like to know if there is a way to prevent the rpm from compiling successfully when there are syntax errors in the perl/shell scripts.

C/C++/Java code does not get compiled when there are syntax errors, this also prevents the rpm from getting built successfully. Perl/shell being interpreted does not work this way.Is there a way to handle this in pom/Maven?

Answer 1

You can use, as mentioned in "I want to execute shell commands from maven's pom.xml", the exec-maven-plugin to execute a command.

In your case, that command could be a script in charge of

• compiling / checking the syntax of perl scripts
• returning not 0 if there is any compilation/syntax error: see "Can maven-exec-plugin fail the build?"

Add that step before the one compiling npm, and said npm compilation won't be executed unless the perl syntax checks out.