Re: [PATCH] Makefile: add and use the ".DELETE_ON_ERROR" flag

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

On Wed, Jun 23 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote:

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What about these?

  $(REMOTE_CURL_ALIASES):

Uses a chain of ln/ln -s/cp, would need to add "-f" flags.

Why? Isn't "x && a || b || c" the same as "a || b || c" if x is always true?

It does:

    rm x &&
    ln y x || ln -s y x || cp y x

If you run that you'll get a hardlink the first time around, but the
second time around you'll fall back to the "cp" if you remove the "rm".

Right. We'll need to do ln -f, and god knows if that's portable.

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Felipe Contreras