RE: Minor documentation bug

[Yakup Akbay]

Sorry, didn't know about the minus sign before a command. Thanks for the info.

Regards,
Yakup


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Smith [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Freitag, 30. Januar 2009 18:13
To: Yakup Akbay
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Minor documentation bug

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 perfectly legal (and useful) syntax.