Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add and use the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag

From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 23, 2021, 19:15 UTC
Message-ID: <60d3886442d62_4290208a@natae.notmuch>
In-Reply-To: <8735t93h0u.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

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> I don't think the way Felipe used it in his patch is an unambiguous
> improvement, it would need to be some combination of reverted/adjusted
> if we went for the "anything you make must always have a 100% working
> copy" general approach in:
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover-0.6-00000000000-20210329T161723Z-avarab@gmail.com/

My view is that it's the tool itself (gcc, asciidoctor, asciidoc) that shouldn't write the output if interrupted, and generally that's the case.

If we do want out scripts to not generate output if interrupted, that should be fixed in the script itself.

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Felipe Contreras