From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:24:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/Makefile: fix interrupted builds of user-manual.xml
Message-ID: <20100422102254.GA701@progeny.tock>
In-Reply-To: <FA4A6177-AB3E-4C5C-8042-1BFBAE09528B@pobox.com>

Chris Johnsen wrote:
> On 2010 Apr 21, at 20:18, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> user-manual.html: user-manual.xml
>> -	$(QUIET_XSLTPROC)xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@ $(XSLT) $<
>> +	$(QUIET_XSLTPROC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
>> +	xsltproc $(XSLTOPTS) -o $@+ $(XSLT) $< && \
>> +	mv $@+ $@
>>
[...]
> I suppose it is obvious enough what is going on in this in this
> second hunk, but there is no mention of this change in the commit
> message. Is this hunk due to a similar problem with xsltproc? Or
> maybe this is just "defensive coding"?

xsltproc indeed has the same problem, as I learned while testing
the first hunk.  Thanks for asking.

Sorry for the incomplete explanation before.
Jonathan