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




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