Jim Meyering wrote: > One must delete $@ and the potential $@-t temporary file in any rule > that creates a generated file and marks it (as I prefer always to do) as > read-only by using chmod to subtract write permissions.
Ah, like coreutils does! So these 'rm -f $@-t $@' commands are a left-over of an idiom copied from coreutils. Whereas in gnulib, we don't use 'chmod a-w ...'. I'm fine with removing these 'rm -f $@-t $@' commands. Bruno