Hello GNU make gurus,
Instead of the patch proposed here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-make/2009-01/msg7.html
I would like to propose the patch below instead. The difference is that I
renamed keep_going_count to stop_at_err_count which I think is more
descriptive of the intent. I
Hi,
in chapter '2.7 Rules for Cleaning the Directory' in 'GNU make'
document.
This is the link to the chapter:
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Cleanup
.PHONY : clean
clean :
-rm edit $(objects)
The minus sign before 'rm' seems to be a c
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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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
The link to the Errors in Commands section,
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Errors, explains what
the - is for.
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Akbay
Sent:
Hello,
The patch I posted earlier is poorly formatted, so I am trying an
attachment instead.
After talking with Alfred (ams on #gnu), we decided to revert the feature
name back to the keep_going_count, because "it keeps the count of how many
times it has gone through an error". And after thi
