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Date: Tue,  9 Oct 2012 09:04:15 +0000
From: Andy Spencer <andy753421@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] mk: the `D' attribute
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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.