Re: [Groff] building process stuck when building groff-current using MinGW

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi,

Keith Marshall wrote:
> In fact, it generates a zero length gnu.png, which is sufficient to
> let the build continue on a second make pass;

A problem with many make files is they do

    cmd data >foo

instead of

    cmd data >foo.tmp && mv foo.tmp foo

or similar.  Imagine if cc(1) worked in the same way.

    cc foo.c >foo.o

After every syntax error we'd have to remember to rm foo.o before
re-making.

Cheers,


Ralph.