[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015474]: The "Unix Makefiles" generator should use .DELETE_ON_ERROR

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15474 
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Reported By:                Andrey Vihrov
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15474
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-03-25 13:18 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-03-25 13:18 EDT
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Summary:                    The "Unix Makefiles" generator should use
.DELETE_ON_ERROR
Description: 
The .DELETE_ON_ERROR special target in GNU Make ensures that if a command fails,
then its corresponding target will be deleted. For example, if a linker OOMs
halfway writing the final executable, then without .DELETE_ON_ERROR Make will
consider that the (corrupted) executable has been built and refuse to rebuild
it.

See also
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Special-Targets.html#index-_002eDELETE_005fON_005fERROR
and
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Errors.html#index-deletion-of-target-files
(last paragraph).

Steps to Reproduce: 
* Use the "Unix Makefiles" generator with a sample CMake project
* Verify that the generated Makefiles do not contain .DELETE_ON_ERROR
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2015-03-25 13:18 Andrey Vihrov  New Issue                                    
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