Re: .PRECIOUS and .SECONDARY do not overlap?

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 23:53 -0700, Mark Galeck (CW) wrote:
> .SECONDARY: %/.
> 
> If I replace ".SECONDARY" with ".PRECIOUS", then everything works
> fine.

Check the docs:

.PRECIOUS accepts a pattern as a target, and applies to all targets that
match that pattern.

.SECONDARY does not accept a pattern as a target, so your .SECONDARY
rule is declaring the target named, literally, "%/." as secondary.
"subdir/." is not "%/." so your .SECONDARY rule doesn't apply to it.

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