A minor Makefile patch to pre-delete any existing files

Brian Rice water at tunes.org
Tue Nov 2 18:20:03 PST 2004


Thanks. This is in CVS now.

On Nov 2, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Ken Causey wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 22:52 +0000, Tony Garnock-Jones wrote:
>> An alternative to "-rm" could be "rm -f", which silently succeeds even
>> if it doesn't find anything to delete.
>>
>> Tony
>
> Yes, you are write.  I looked at the man file for rm but overlooked 
> that
> detail of the -f option.  New patch attached based on this suggestion.
>
> Ken
> <getAlphaOverwrite2.patch>
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