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Date:      Sat, 21 Sep 1996 12:32:15 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        alk@Think.COM, chuckr@glue.umd.edu
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gnu/usr.bin/cc not building
Message-ID:  <199609210232.MAA04692@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>===> cc_tools
>gperf -p -j1 -i 1 -g -o -t -G -N is_reserved_word -k1,3,$ \
> /alt/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_tools/../../../../contrib/gcc/c-parse.gperf \
>  > c-gperf.h
>
>Should the ${.TARGET} file, c-gperf.h, not have been removed
>automatically, if gperf returned non-zero status due to an interrupt?

Targets are removed automatically if the command to build them is
killed, but not if it exits with a nonzero status.  Thus make always
does the wrong thing for failed targets that are created by simple
shell command :-(.  This seems to be standard - gmake does the same.

Bruce



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