From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el? Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:25:02 -0600 Message-ID: References: <200707031842.l63IgTR8029247@oogie-boogie.ics.uci.edu> <854pkls0s7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1183495523 11961 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2007 20:45:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:45:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Dan Nicolaescu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 03 22:45:22 2007 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I5pFR-00029x-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:45:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I5pFR-00029o-En for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:45:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I5pFN-00028v-H2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I5pFN-00028j-1W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:45:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I5pFM-00028g-S1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:45:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I5pFL-00017N-77; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:45:15 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l63KjEhH032729; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from pobox.corp.redhat.com (pobox.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.20]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l63KjDUd028202; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:45:13 -0400 Original-Received: from opsy.redhat.com (ton.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.15]) by pobox.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l63KjCJN024843; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:45:12 -0400 Original-Received: by opsy.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 500) id 749ABC88042; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 14:25:02 -0600 (MDT) X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <854pkls0s7.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue\, 03 Jul 2007 22\:14\:00 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:74255 Archived-At: >>>>> "David" == David Kastrup 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