From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@raeburn.org>
To: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi>
Cc: Keisuke Nishida <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>, guile-emacs@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: guileapi.x problems [patch]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 21:11:00 -0000
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Kalle Olavi Niemitalo <tosi@ees2.oulu.fi> writes:

> -	guile-snarf guileapi.c > guileapi.x
> +	guile-snarf -I. -I$(srcdir) $(CPPFLAGS) $(srcdir)/guileapi.c > guileapi.x \
> +	  || ( rm guileapi.x; false )

A suggestion: Redirect output to guileapi.tmp, then rename that file
to guileapi.x.  Then you're never doing anything to guileapi.x until
you've successfully generated the output.  Just for paranoia... :-)