On Mon Jun 20 06:44:13 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Sometimes I wish for an '-o file' option to groff and friends, with
>
> Be careful about that, using it means that anywhere you don't have that
> version of groff installed your makefile will break.
I know, I know -- thus the 'sometimes'.
I'll simply use a modified version of Keith's suggestion:
foo.ps: foo.ms
groff --some-options foo.ms >$@ \
|| ($(RM) $@; false)
That seems to be a reasonable idiom (although it adds a shell invocation or
two -- it there a sane, portable way of eliminating the parenthesis?)
/Jörgen
--
// Jörgen Grahn "Koka lopplummer, bada Ross, loppor borta."
\X/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Jonas
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