From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefile
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:18:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834mrivful.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54C13AAE.9070803@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:14 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> 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.
OK, but are we sure "rm -f FOO" behaves like described above on all
supported Posix platforms? How about OS X or some *BSD?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-22 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-22 17:54 [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefile Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-22 18:00 ` Paul Eggert
2015-01-22 18:18 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-01-22 18:50 ` chad
2015-01-22 20:03 ` Paul Eggert
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