Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> What I meant was if there are well known upstream projects whose >> Makefile actually use >> >> $(CC) -o $@+ ... >> mv $@+ $@ ... or can you find a popular build generator or two that write such rules for the final linkage stage (or individual object file generation step) and argue that all the projects that use the tool do benefit from such a rule because they can run without installing and rebuild while the old one is running? Then I may have found a good reason to believe that some projects thought hard and long and came to the same conclusion as you did. I started from the place where I didn't find your rationale for wanting such a construct sensible, and such a finding may tempt me to think again. But otherwise...
