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Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el? |
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Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:21:43 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
Bill Wohler <address@hidden> writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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
- 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, 2007/07/04
- Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?,
David Kastrup <=
- 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