From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use $(RM) in makefiles instead of rm Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 01:33:18 -0700 Message-ID: <7vejjbjsfl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> References: <11843489233943-git-send-email-Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Emil Medve X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Jul 14 10:33:24 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I9d47-0006ev-3W for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:33:23 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751708AbXGNIdU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:33:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751928AbXGNIdU (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:33:20 -0400 Received: from fed1rmmtao106.cox.net ([68.230.241.40]:33431 "EHLO fed1rmmtao106.cox.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751708AbXGNIdT (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:33:19 -0400 Received: from fed1rmimpo01.cox.net ([70.169.32.71]) by fed1rmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20070714083319.DESQ1393.fed1rmmtao106.cox.net@fed1rmimpo01.cox.net>; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:33:19 -0400 Received: from assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net ([68.5.247.80]) by fed1rmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id PLZJ1X00E1kojtg0000000; Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:33:19 -0400 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: The title really should read "instead of 'rm -f'". And who defines "RM = rm -f" when nothing is specified on the command line? I'd assume the answer is "GNU make", and it probably is true for all versions we care about, but I would feel better if we have that spelled explicitly as the fallback position, just like we define CC, AR and friends.