Re: [The good, the bad and] The Ugly -- the cosmetic rant
On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:52:06PM +0100, Gergely Nagy wrote:
> > What happens if the configure command fails? config.status will be
> > there, all right, but the configure target will not have completed
> > successfully. So if you use config.status as a stamp file, you'll be
> > stuffed.
> >
>
> No. If configure fails, config.status won't be created. Only
> config.log gets created in that case.
I didn't realise. OK.
> [...]
> There's a distinction between comments that were put in to describe
> what a given code does, or should do, and comments that are only
> relevant until the necessary code is added.
True.
Julian
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