I suspect it just that we disagree. In the most common case, I don't really
care whether such things get deleted. I sometimes very much want them
not to be deleted, because they contain interesting information on the
failure mode. I don't believe I've ever explicitly wanted them to be
deleted. That
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 ex
why is the `D' attribute (`If the recipe exits with a non-null status, the
target is deleted.') optional and not default behavior? in what cases does
leaving half-made files make sense?
GNU make's manual states, ``This [[removal of target on error]] is almost
always what you want `make' to do,
