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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:25:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3myyd2q1t.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <854pkls0s7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue\, 03 Jul 2007 22\:14\:00 +0200")

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

[from the make manual]
>> `make' will do this if `.DELETE_ON_ERROR' appears as a
>> target.  This is almost always what you want `make' to do, but it is
>> not historical practice; so for compatibility, you must explicitly
>> request it.

Another typical, and portable, approach is to create a temporary file
and then 'mv' it to the correct name at the end of the rule.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-03 20:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-03 18:42 Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el? Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-03 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-03 20:14   ` David Kastrup
2007-07-03 20:25     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2007-07-03 20:55   ` Dan Nicolaescu
2007-07-04  3:17     ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-04  4:44       ` Bill Wohler
2007-07-04  6:21         ` David Kastrup
2007-07-04  8:46           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2007-07-04 14:16           ` Tom Tromey
2007-07-04 14:19             ` Tom Tromey
2007-07-04 21:25         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-07-04 23:06           ` David Robinow
2007-07-05  3:28             ` Eli Zaretskii

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