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Delete command buggy?
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I try to use the normal delete command in a make script, but no matter what I do, make stops if delete can't find the file to delete (already deleted):

delete MyFile
MyFile Not Deleted: object not found
make: *** [target] Error 5

I have tried to add QUIET and/or FORCE, but to no avail. Delete always seems to return WARN (5) when it can't find the file, so the makefile always stops. And QUIET does NOT make it quiet. It still prints
"MyFile Not Deleted: object not found"

Any comments on this?

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Develops for OnyxSoft and the Amiga using E and C and occasionally C++
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Re: Delete command buggy?
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set your failat to above 5 then

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Re: Delete command buggy?
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Delete is doing exactly what it's supposed to, it's setting a return code of 5 - warning - because there's no file to delete. Without a failat threshold set above 5, the script will terminate before the next command.

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@Deniil

If delete more then one file at once, there is no problem
Delete file1 file2 file3 #?(.o|.a|.elf|.exe|.tmp)

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Re: Delete command buggy?
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@NinjaCyborg

This is make (from gcc), not AmigaDOS. There is not failat in make.

@LiveForIt

Thanks, I found a similar solution, using touch first to create a dummy and then deleting with #?, before realising that you can prepend a command with - to ignore its return code.

target:
-delete MyFile
continue with important stuff

That works!

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