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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: aCC link options |
Date: | Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:26:11 -0500 (CDT) |
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
The opinions on this matter are certainly not unanimous. On the one hand, there is the issue you mention that re-make thinks the target is up-to-date, although it isn't (it exists but is result of a failed link, and does not have execute permission). On the other hand, a link may take a long time, and the output file from a failed link may give useful clues as to the problem a programmer may encounter.
Regardless of possible value for debugging, leaving a broken target behind which influences the next build attempt is clearly wrong behavior. A goal of autotools should be to obtain consistent behavior in an inconsistent world. Leaving stray files behind represents inconsistent behavior which should be rectified.
Bob ====================================== Bob Friesenhahn address@hidden, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/ GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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