Hi, Keith Marshall wrote: > In fact, it generates a zero length gnu.png, which is sufficient to > let the build continue on a second make pass;
A problem with many make files is they do
cmd data >foo
instead of
cmd data >foo.tmp && mv foo.tmp foo
or similar. Imagine if cc(1) worked in the same way.
cc foo.c >foo.o
After every syntax error we'd have to remember to rm foo.o before
re-making.
Cheers,
Ralph.
