Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:

>> Tom's approach--writing to a temporary file and moving it at the
>> end--seems to answer all issues.

David> For people who like temporary files lying around.

The temporary file will be overwritten the next time you run 'make'.

I was a little surprised to see this objection.  This technique has
been in use for a number of years in automake, among other places.  I
don't recall ever seeing a complaint about it.

Tom