Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefile

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:00:14 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> 
> 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.

OK, but are we sure "rm -f FOO" behaves like described above on all
supported Posix platforms?  How about OS X or some *BSD?