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Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?
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Bill Wohler |
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Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el? |
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Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:44:56 -0700 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden>
>> Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:55:24 -0700
>> Cc: address@hidden
>>
>> Do this
>>
>> rm src/emacs mh-e/mh-loaddefs.el
>> cd lisp
>> make mh-autoloads
>>
>> "make mh-autoloads" will fail, now run "make mh-autoloads" again and it will
>> succeed...
>
> I think this is true for almost any other target in lisp/Makefile.
I agree with Eli. The mh-loaddefs.el rule is essentially a copy of the
loaddefs.el rule. If the mh-loaddefs.el rule needs to be fixed, all of
the rules need to be fixed.
> 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.
Tom's approach--writing to a temporary file and moving it at the
end--seems to answer all issues.
--
Bill Wohler <address@hidden> http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD
- Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/07/03
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/03
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, David Kastrup, 2007/07/03
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Dan Nicolaescu, 2007/07/03
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/03
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?,
Bill Wohler <=
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, David Kastrup, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Tom Tromey, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Tom Tromey, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, David Robinow, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/07/04