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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefile |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:14 -0800 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 |
On 01/22/2015 09:54 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Why should the "*clean*" targets fail when "rm -f" returns a non-zero exit status? What are the advantages?
'rm -f FOO' succeeds if FOO already does not exist. So if 'rm -f FOO' fails, 'make clean' did not work and most likely FOO still exists, and the situation requires manual attention.
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