bug#23661: [PATCH] compile: remove .Tpo file upon failure

2016-06-01 Thread Jim Meyering
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:08 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > I was annoyed not to be able to use automake's latest-from-master > while preparing for a diffutils release: "make distcheck" would fail > with a single left-over .Tpo file under gnulib-tests. > > Here is the patch that

bug#23661: [PATCH] compile: remove .Tpo file upon failure

2016-05-30 Thread Jim Meyering
I was annoyed not to be able to use automake's latest-from-master while preparing for a diffutils release: "make distcheck" would fail with a single left-over .Tpo file under gnulib-tests. Here is the patch that solved the problem for me. Comments welcome. I expect to push to master in a day or