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Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 05/14] [ng] clean: do not ignore errors while r


From: Stefano Lattarini
Subject: Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 05/14] [ng] clean: do not ignore errors while removing files
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:44:18 +0200

On 06/21/2012 07:27 PM, Dave Hart wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Stefano Lattarini
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Possible culprits have been identified with the command "git grep '-rm\b'".
>>
>> * NG-NEWS: Update.
>> * lib/am/tags.am, lib/am/distdir.am, lib/am/dejagnu.am, lib/am/clean.am: Do
>> not invoke "rm" when the "-" recipe modifier: we now want the cleaning
>> recipes to fail if rm encounters an error.
> 
> "when" is confusing here.
>
Typo.  It was mean to be "with" actually.  Still ...

> I suggest:
> 
> * lib/am/tags.am, lib/am/distdir.am, lib/am/dejagnu.am, lib/am/clean.am: Do
> not prefix recipes invoking "rm" with the "-" recipe modifier: we now want
> the cleaning recipes to fail if rm encounters an error.
>
... I like your wording better, so I'll use it anyway.

Thanks,
  Stefano



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