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^c now disallowed? (was Re: "cd dir && $(MAKE)", not "cd dir; $(MAKE)")
- From: Doug Evans <dje at transmeta dot com>
- To: neroden at twcny dot rr dot com
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 11:14:42 -0800
- Subject: ^c now disallowed? (was Re: "cd dir && $(MAKE)", not "cd dir; $(MAKE)")
Browsing the gdb archives I came across this.
Nathanael Nerode writes:
> But interrupting 'make' in the middle can give
> all manner of screwy results now; don't rely on it.
Ugh. This is an effect of the configury change that
I hadn't anticipated. This is going to be a major pain IMHO.
Are the powers that be really ok with saying "just don't do that (*1)" ?
(*1): Which is effectively the same as saying rm -rf *
(assuming objdir != srcdir of course) is required if
you ^c and want the next `make' to work (assuming you don't want to
go to the trouble of figuring out what state the tree is in that will
screw up a subsequent make). Ugh.