From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefile Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:14 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <54C13AAE.9070803@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83d266vgzg.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1421949652 32378 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2015 18:00:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 18:00:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 22 19:00:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YEM3l-0007Ia-EL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 19:00:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55288 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEM3k-0003eg-S5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:00:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46732) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEM3b-0003da-0S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:00:39 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEM3Z-0000nQ-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:00:38 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:43700) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YEM3U-0000lE-2J; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:00:32 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D223BA60063; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:28 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id u+3ZEcoDdrho; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:28 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 52AC0A60062; Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:28 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 In-Reply-To: <83d266vgzg.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:181626 Archived-At: On 01/22/2015 09:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Why should the "*clean*" targets fail when "rm -f" returns a non-zero > exit status? What are the advantages? 'rm -f FOO' succeeds if FOO already does not exist. So if 'rm -f FOO' fails, 'make clean' did not work and most likely FOO still exists, and the situation requires manual attention.