Problem with GNU make v3.77 and later

Hi, We are using GNU make here at HP to build many of our products on several platforms (Tru64 UNIX, HP-UX, Linux). We have experienced a problem with make v3.77 and later (including the latest version, 3.80). Version 3.76 works fine. Attached is a test-case to reproduce the problem (the tgz co

.DELETE_ON_ERROR doesn't work for directories

The .DELETE_ON_ERROR target doesn't work for directories. If I have a directory "t2" and there is an error while updating the "t2" target but after the "t2" directory has been created, the directory is not removed, even if I have specified .DELETE_ON_ERROR as a target. Here is an example: t1: