From: Andy Spencer <andy753421@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] mk: the `D' attribute
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2012 09:04:15 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121009090415.GA3300@c.gateway.2wire.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3999693.4jXBKSpAjI@coil>
On 2012-10-09 10:02, dexen deVries wrote:
> GNU make's manual states, ``This [[removal of target on error]] is
> almost always what you want `make' to do
I'm don't think GNU Make has ever correctly predicted what I want
`make' to do.
Besides that, I think there could be problems if you have an existing
file and run mk to update it and instead it just deletes the one you
have.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-09 9:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-09 8:02 dexen deVries
2012-10-09 9:04 ` Andy Spencer [this message]
2012-10-09 15:22 ` Anthony Sorace
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