Re: [PATCH v1] libacpi: use temporary files for generated files

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

On 27.10.2020 11:57, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 27/10/2020 10:37, Jan Beulich wrote:
>> On 27.10.2020 11:27, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>> Am Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:16:04 +0100
>>> schrieb Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>>> This pattern is used when a rule consists of multiple commands
>>>> having their output appended to one another's.
>>> My understanding is: a rule is satisfied as soon as the file exists.
>> No - once make has found that a rule's commands need running, it'll
>> run the full set and only check again afterwards.
> 
> It stops at the first command which fails.
> 
> Olaf is correct, but the problem here is an incremental build issue, not
> a parallel build issue.
> 
> Intermediate files must not use the name of the target, or a failure and
> re-build will use the (bogus) intermediate state rather than rebuilding it.

But there's no intermediate file here - the file gets created in one
go. Furthermore doesn't make delete the target file(s) when a rule
fails? (One may not want to rely on this, and hence indeed keep multi-
part rules update intermediate files of different names.)

Jan