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Re: .DELETE_ON_ERROR ?
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 15:55:52 +0200
- Subject: Re: .DELETE_ON_ERROR ?
- References: <20050510131544.GA23208@math.cas.cz>
Stepan Kasal <kasal@ucw.cz> writes:
> Hello,
> I've just stumbled over this problem:
> Makefile.am contains:
>
> foo.h: foo.x
> $(GENERATOR) foo.x >foo.h
>
> But the GENERATOR command failed and I have empty foo.h.
Use a temporary file and rename that afterwards.
Andreas.
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