Re: Intermediate file woes

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  th> 1) Explicit intermediate files (Those listed as pre-reqs of
  th>    .INTERMEDIATE) will get deleted even if make did not create
  th>    them.  This is not-consistant with how make deals with
  th>    non-explicit intermediate files.  Here's an example:

Hmm.  I agree this looks like a bug; I'll check it out.

  th> 2) The .INTERMEDIATE target doesn't accept patterns for
  th>    dependencies.  For example, you can't do this.
  th>      .INTERMEDIATE: %.x

Right, you can't, and the docs don't say you can :).

This would be an enhancement request.

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