Re: [HACKERS] ecpg leaves broken files around

2007-06-11 Thread Michael Meskes
On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:56:44PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: AFAIK, most other compilers delete their output if it's not valid. Is there any particular reason why ecpg doesn't do this? No, not really. Sometimes it comes handy to see what was already processed, but you're right, it's not

Re: [HACKERS] ecpg leaves broken files around

2007-06-11 Thread Magnus Hagander
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 08:05:16AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: On Sun, Jun 10, 2007 at 09:56:44PM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: AFAIK, most other compilers delete their output if it's not valid. Is there any particular reason why ecpg doesn't do this? No, not really. Sometimes it comes

Re: [HACKERS] ecpg leaves broken files around

2007-06-11 Thread Michael Meskes
On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:03:57AM +0200, Magnus Hagander wrote: If you find the other behaviour useful, perhaps add a commandline switch that makes it leave the file around? Just make the remove-the-file-on-failure default. Should be fixed now. I don't think such a command line switch is

[HACKERS] ecpg leaves broken files around

2007-06-10 Thread Magnus Hagander
When working on the ecpg regression stuff things, it's the first time I've actually used ecpg. And I notice now that it leaves incomplete and broken files around when it fails. For example, I currently get: parser.pgc:26: ERROR: syntax error at or near NULLS when building. I have to