From:	"Vyacheslav O. Myskin" <V DOT O DOT Myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su>
Organization:	BINP RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 19 Feb 1997 18:05:24 +0600
Subject:	Re: Strange rm behavour
Reply-To:	V DOT O DOT Myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su
Message-Id:	<19EF3F8347F@csd.inp.nsk.su>

On 19 Feb 97 at 11:23, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
> On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Vyacheslav O. Myskin wrote:
>
> > But it makes impossible to use rm -f somedir/* in makefiles, which is
> > much worse.
>
> No, the above command will work perfectly in a Makefile, because Make
> calls `system' when it sees a wildcard (or any other character special to
> the shell).  Btw, that is exactly how Make works on Unix: when it sees a
> wildcard, it calls the shell to do the job instead of calling `execXX'.
>
> (In general, you should try things before complaining that they don't
> work.)

I started complaining AFTER things didn't work.

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 Directory of D:\TMP

.            <DIR>     02-03-97   8:08p
..           <DIR>     02-03-97   8:08p
DIR1         <DIR>     02-19-97   5:15p
MAKEFILE            18 02-19-97   5:17p
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Directory of D:\TMP\DIR1

.            <DIR>     02-19-97   5:15p
..           <DIR>     02-19-97   5:15p
PLOT     CC      3,180 02-17-97  10:47p
PTEST    CC      1,347 02-16-97   4:45p
UTILS    CC      2,405 02-13-97   7:42p
DIR1             0 02-19-97   5:19p
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The makefile:

all:
        rm dir1/*

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Starting make from d:\tmp
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D:\TMP>make
rm dir1/*
c:/djgpp/bin/rm: dir1/*: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
make.exe: *** [all] Error 1
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Nothing changes in d:\tmp\dir1
Typing at DOS prompt:
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D:\TMP>rm dir1/*

D:\TMP>
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d:\tmp\dir1 is empty now. -f just suppresses the error message,
all the rest is the same.

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Vyacheslav O. Myskin  <myskin AT inp DOT nsk DOT su>
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP RAS)
Novosibirsk, Russia

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