From 8140f30d2fe3609243ac4b992c278fd32cfd7385 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alon Zakai <alonzakai@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 10:49:36 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] accept failure to make a configure executable executable

---
 emcc | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/emcc b/emcc
index fe6567bca..a81edccaf 100755
--- a/emcc
+++ b/emcc
@@ -281,7 +281,10 @@ if CONFIGURE_CONFIG or CMAKE_CONFIG:
         full_node = '/usr/bin/' + full_node # TODO: use whereis etc. And how about non-*NIX?
       open(target, 'w').write('#!' + full_node + '\n' + src) # add shebang
       import stat
-      os.chmod(target, stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(target).st_mode) | stat.S_IXUSR) # make executable
+      try:
+        os.chmod(target, stat.S_IMODE(os.stat(target).st_mode) | stat.S_IXUSR) # make executable
+      except:
+        pass # can fail if e.g. writing the executable to /dev/null
     exit(ret)
 
 if os.environ.get('EMMAKEN_COMPILER'):