Re: intermediate files

[Krzysztof Cieniuch]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Noel David Torres Taño <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:36:42 +0100
> >
> > Are you really looking for help or just trying to get us upset with you? Why 
> > don't you try and contract a personal professor?
> >
> > I recognize that answers to some of the questions you have asked are not 
> > evident, but they are easy if you a) understand how make works and b) learn to 
> > read english. Which is your english proficency level? Do you really understand 
> > what make does and how it works in the big picture?
> >     
>
> This is HELP-make mailing list.  The HELP part means its purpose is to
> help.  If you have nothing helpful to say, there's an option to say
> nothing.
>
> TIA
>
>   
Some might think that below is not very helpful ;-))
(So don't complain you've been warned)

I don't want to start war but before sending questions one should at 
least skim through:
http://catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#before

Especially I like the following from that page:
Never assume you are /entitled/ to an answer. You are not; you aren't, 
after all, paying for the service. You will earn an answer, if you earn 
it, by asking a substantial, interesting, and thought-provoking question 
— one that implicitly contributes to the experience of the community 
rather than merely passively demanding knowledge from others.

I admit that make is not easy to grasp so one must invest time and 
experiment a lot.
I've spend hours reading make manual (and reading it again and again 
.... and again :-) but did that in parallel
with writing my own simple makefiles and experimenting.
Also articles about make on cm crossroads and Paul Smith web page were 
very helpful.

K.