From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:05:30 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mark %MAKEFILE% as `.PRECIOUS'.
X-Git-Tag: Release-1-7d~8
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e1f171d2e219d8055a8c34de9fbe9dfd8bb51122;p=thirdparty%2Fautomake.git

Mark %MAKEFILE% as `.PRECIOUS'.
---

diff --git a/lib/am/configure.am b/lib/am/configure.am
index ba7a58817..20f4eefa8 100644
--- a/lib/am/configure.am
+++ b/lib/am/configure.am
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ endif %?TOPDIR_P%
 	cd $(top_srcdir) && \
 	  $(AUTOMAKE) --%STRICTNESS% %USE-DEPS% %MAKEFILE-AM-SOURCES%
 
+## Ensure that GNU make doesn't remove Makefile if ./config.status (below)
+## is interrupted.  Otherwise, the user would need to know to rerun
+## ./config.status to recreate the lost Makefile.
+.PRECIOUS: %MAKEFILE%
 ## This rule remakes the Makefile.
 %MAKEFILE%: %MAINTAINER-MODE% %MAKEFILE-DEPS% $(top_builddir)/config.status
 ## If Makefile is to be updated because of config.status, then run