PR18810, darwin don't unlink /dev/null on make install

[Geoffrey Keating]

Peter O'Gorman <peter@pogma.com> writes:

> Hi,
> I was getting my /dev/null unlinked when I did make install, I didn't
> really like that.
> 
> There are a number of things at play here. For example, I have no idea
> why make is deciding it needs to rebuild libgcc.a on my system when I
> do 'sudo make install', another is, why does darwin's as have
> (void)unlink(out_file_name);
> in write_object.c, and of course, why does sudo rm /dev/null actually work.

Could you file a bug report about the assembler problem, at

<http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/index.html>?

'sudo rm /dev/null' is supposed to work, how else could you get rid of
a /dev/null that you had created wrongly after the assembler had
deleted the correct one?  :-)