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Summary: .DELETE_ON_ERROR does not delete directories
Project: make
Submitted by: None
Submitted on: Tuesday 04/18/06 at 18:44 UTC
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: Bug
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Component Version: 3.81
Operating System: Any
Fixed Release: None
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Details:
As can be easily found out, either by a simple experiment or by reading the
code in commands.c/delete_target, make does not even try to delete failed
targets declared as prerequisites to .DELETE_ON_ERROR if they are not regular
files.
If this is desired behavior, the manual does not mention it. I argue that it
is not desired. An application I am working on builds directories as target,
and, for the reasons mentioned in the manual, leaving them hanging around
after a failed build is confusing for the human, and produces wrong results
for the program.
The problem has been reported on the bug-make list as
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2003-01/msg00014.html (receiving
no replies).
Bengt Martensson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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