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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefil
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chad |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 74ab488: Check exit statuses in lib-src/Makefile |
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Thu, 22 Jan 2015 10:50:18 -0800 |
> On 22 Jan 2015, at 10:18, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> 'rm -f FOO' succeeds if FOO already does not exist. So if 'rm -f FOO'
>> fails, 'make clean' did not work and most likely FOO still exists, and
>> the situation requires manual attention.
>
> OK, but are we sure "rm -f FOO" behaves like described above on all
> supported Posix platforms? How about OS X or some *BSD?
FWIW, I can verify that it does behave that way on OS X.
~Chad