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


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: Makefile bug in generating mh-loaddefs.el?
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:19:32 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux)

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <address@hidden> writes:

>>>>> "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.

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

Oops, I realized this isn't clear enough.
The rule ends with 'mv'.  So a temporary file only exists in the case
that the build failed.  In this case it is sometimes useful to see the
contents of the file.  If the rule uses a fixed temporary file name,
then the temp file will not exist after a successful build due to the mv.

Tom




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