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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-03-31 15:33:53 (GMT)
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+* The Makefile generators now add ``.DELETE_ON_ERROR`` to the
+ makefiles that contain the actual build rules for files on disk.
+ This tells GNU make to remove rule outputs when their recipe
+ modifies an output but fails.