Sorry, didn't know about the minus sign before a command. Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Yakup
-Original Message-
From: Paul Smith [mailto:psm...@gnu.org]
Sent: Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 18:13
To: Yakup Akbay
Cc: bug-make@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Minor documentation bug
On Fri, 2009-
The link to the Errors in Commands section,
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Errors, explains what
the - is for.
From: bug-make-bounces+mdorey=bluearc@gnu.org
[mailto:bug-make-bounces+mdorey=bluearc@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Yakup
Akbay
Sent:
On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 05:04 -0800, Yakup Akbay wrote:
> in chapter ‘2.7 Rules for Cleaning the Directory’ in ‘GNU make’
> document.
> .PHONY : clean
> clean :
> -rm edit $(objects)
>
> The minus sign before ‘rm’ seems to be a clerical error.
Why do you say so? That's pe
On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 05:04:36AM -0800, Yakup Akbay wrote:
> The minus sign before 'rm' seems to be a clerical error.
The minus sign tells make to ignore errors from the command.
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Noah Slater, http://tumbolia.org/nslater
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