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[PATCH v2 3/5] doc: remove unnecessary rm instances

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
May 14, 2021, 11:56 UTC
Message-ID
<20210514115631.503276-4-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<20210514115631.503276-1-felipe.contreras@gmail.com>

Commits 50cff52f1a (When generating manpages, delete outdated targets first., 2007-08-02) and f9286765b2 (Documentation/Makefile: remove cmd-list.made before redirecting to it., 2007-08-06) created these rm instances for a very rare corner-case: building as root by mistake.

It's odd to have workarounds here, but nowhere else in the Makefile-- which already fails in this stuation, starting from Documentation/technical/.

We gain nothing but complexity, so let's remove them.
Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
---
 Documentation/Makefile | 8 +++-----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/Makefile b/Documentation/Makefile
index 0f59cc0853..aae8803e4c 100644
--- a/Documentation/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/Makefile
@@ -318,8 +318,7 @@ cmds_txt = cmds-ancillaryinterrogators.txt \
 $(cmds_txt): cmd-list.made
 
 cmd-list.made: cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(MAN1_TXT)
-	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ && \
-	$(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(cmds_txt) $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
+	$(QUIET_GEN)$(PERL_PATH) ./cmd-list.perl ../command-list.txt $(cmds_txt) $(QUIET_STDERR) && \
 	date >$@
 
 mergetools_txt = mergetools-diff.txt mergetools-merge.txt
@@ -327,7 +326,7 @@ mergetools_txt = mergetools-diff.txt mergetools-merge.txt
 $(mergetools_txt): mergetools-list.made
 
 mergetools-list.made: ../git-mergetool--lib.sh $(wildcard ../mergetools/*)
-	$(QUIET_GEN)$(RM) $@ && \
+	$(QUIET_GEN) \
 	$(SHELL_PATH) -c 'MERGE_TOOLS_DIR=../mergetools && \
 		. ../git-mergetool--lib.sh && \
 		show_tool_names can_diff "* " || :' >mergetools-diff.txt && \
@@ -370,8 +369,7 @@ manpage-base-url.xsl: manpage-base-url.xsl.in
 	$(QUIET_GEN)sed "s|@@MAN_BASE_URL@@|$(MAN_BASE_URL)|" $< > $@
 
 %.1 %.5 %.7 : %.xml manpage-base-url.xsl $(wildcard manpage*.xsl)
-	$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(RM) $@ && \
-	$(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
+	$(QUIET_XMLTO)$(XMLTO) -m $(MANPAGE_XSL) $(XMLTO_EXTRA) man $<
 
 %.xml : %.txt $(ASCIIDOC_DEPS)
 	$(QUIET_ASCIIDOC)$(RM) $@+ $@ && \
-- 
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  1. 0/5 doc: asciidoc cleanupsFelipe Contreras, May 14, 2021
  2. 1/5 doc: refactor common asciidoc dependenciesFelipe Contreras, May 14, 2021
  3. 2/5 doc: improve asciidoc dependenciesFelipe Contreras, May 14, 2021
  4. 3/5 doc: remove unnecessary rm instancesFelipe Contreras, May 14, 2021
  5. Jeff KingMay 15, 2021
  6. Felipe ContrerasMay 15, 2021
  7. Jeff KingMay 17, 2021
  8. Felipe ContrerasMay 17, 2021
  9. Jeff KingMay 17, 2021
  10. 4/5 doc: simplify Makefile using .DELETE_ON_ERRORFelipe Contreras, May 14, 2021
  11. 5/5 doc: avoid using rm directlyFelipe Contreras, May 14, 2021

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