Re: question about Generating Prerequisites Automatically

[Lin George]

Thanks Paul,

> Read the section of the GNU make manual on
> intermediate files.

I can not find a dedicated section dealing with
intermediate files in the PDF GNU make manual. It is
mentioned in page 107/108 from the Index of Concepts,
but I can not find it.

For a newbie of intermediate files, which section of
GNU make manual should I read? Thanks.


regards,
George

--- "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> wrote:

> %% Lin George <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   lg> I am reading through GNU make manual about
> "Generating
>   lg> Prerequisites Automatically" topic. I do not
> quite
>   lg> understand what the following statements mean
> (Section
>   lg> 4.14),
> 
>   lg> --------------------
>   lg> Note that such a prerequisite constitutes
> mentioning
>   lg> main.o in a makefile, so it can never be
> considered an
>   lg> intermediate file by implicit rule search.
> This means
>   lg> that make won't ever remove the file after
> using it;
>   lg> see Chains of Implicit Rules. 
>   lg> --------------------
> 
>   lg> Could anyone show me a simple sample please?
> 
> I'm not sure what kind of example one could show.
> 
> Read the section of the GNU make manual on
> intermediate files.
> 
> Then note that by putting your .o files into the
> makefile like this,
> you're ensuring that they cannot be intermediate
> files.
> 
> -- 
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