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

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Taylor Blau wrote:

> I do think that .DELETE_ON_ERROR is less robust when running "make" in
> one terminal and inspecting the result in another, but I'm also not sure
> how much we should be concerned about that. On the other hand, we lose
> a nice property of our existing Makefile which is that you can always
> run ./git and get a working binary. The new state is that you might see
> a half-written binary.

How would that happen? First, the git target isn't changed, and second,
gcc (and presumably other compilers/linkers) wouldn't write the binary
if interrupted.

-- 
Felipe Contreras



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