Re: makeinfo removes info file without necessity

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Bruno Haible wrote:

> > GCC doesn't produce foobar.o file at all in such cases, IIRC.
> 
> That's exactly my point: When it cannot produce output due to syntax
> errors in the input, it just gives an error message and exit(1), but
> doesn't remove the existing foobar.o file.

As Karl explained, makeinfo produces output as a side effect of its 
parsing of input, which is different from how GCC works.