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Re: "make" skips files that had build failure on next run
From: |
W. J. van der Laan |
Subject: |
Re: "make" skips files that had build failure on next run |
Date: |
Sun, 18 Apr 2021 15:29:42 +0000 |
> Yes, I agree, this is less than great. Otoh, removing partial output
> upon failure (something like)
>
> if ! mescc ...; then
>
> rm -f xxx.o xxx.S
>
> fi
>
> may also not be what we want? Possibly we could do something like
>
> mv xxx.o xxx.o-error
Yes, that would definitely work.
I suppose for robustness the other way around would be preferable: create a
(say) .o-build then rename it to .o when it is successful.
-W