From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:21:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86y7hwpu2w.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y7hwg4l3.fsf@olgas.newt.com> (Bill Wohler's message of "Tue\, 03 Jul 2007 21\:44\:56 -0700")
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> So generally the right thing to do is to
>> delete the target file if the command fails after beginning to change
>> the file. `make' will do this if `.DELETE_ON_ERROR' appears as a
>> target.
>
> I'm not sure I'd agree with this practice. If the command fails, the
> remnants of the target file could be used for troubleshooting.
In most cases, executing the command via copy&paste is possible.
> Tom's approach--writing to a temporary file and moving it at the
> end--seems to answer all issues.
For people who like temporary files lying around.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-04 6:21 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
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 [this message]
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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