This was the only way I knew how to display the step at which the build-setup process failed.
I've personally experienced failures at multiple of the build steps, and before I got used to Chipyard,
it was hard to figure out which step was the culprit. With this, users should have a bit more info to
troubleshoot their issues. For some of the build steps that required multiple lines, I figured it made
more sense to put them into a sub-script, rather than putting a && at the end of each line. But for the
firesim one for example, since it was two .sh calls, I just put a && after the first one, inside of the
try block, to make sure both lines run.

This also fixed the weird issue I was experiencing where the try-catch in step 1 caused step 3 to break