Re: rm -f *.obj exits with error on nonexisting file

[Daniel]

Hi,
just a liddle question to avoid confuision: do you meen *.obj or *.o? You are 
using both...

greez
Daniel

Am Mittwoch, 16. August 2006 19:56 schrieb Sascha Kolb:
> Hi I am wondering,
>
> I have different versions of rm.exe with exits with error  if I use
> wildcards with -f parameter and there is no file existing.
>
> RM:= rm -f
>
> We have many clean targets that make
>
> $(RM)  *.obj
>
> on the first rebuild after fetching the source code it is really anoying
> that we get so many stderros about this topic.
> cannot remove `*.o': Invalid argument
>
> 1. Is this desired behaviour, expeciall with -f switch ?
> 2. Is there any way to disable this behaviour ?
>
>
> rm (GNU coreutils) 5.3.0
> Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, Richard Stallman, and Jim Meye
> Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>
> Thanks for your support.
>
> Sascha
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