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makefile cruft


From: Thien-Thi Nguyen
Subject: makefile cruft
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 17:30:09 -0800

i notice in some guile makefiles:

  SOME-COMMAND > $@ || { rm $@; false; }

can this be replaced equiavalently w/ simply:

  SOME-COMMAND > $@

?  won't make(1) automatically remove $@ if SOME-COMMMAND fails?
is this some kind of kludge for broken make programs?

thi



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