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Re: .SECONDARY: unwanted effect of not causing rebuilds when intermediat
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Dmitry Goncharov |
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Re: .SECONDARY: unwanted effect of not causing rebuilds when intermediate files missing |
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Mon, 5 Apr 2021 19:46:47 -0400 |
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 7:28 PM Britton Kerin <britton.kerin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Even if this behavior of .SECONDARY: is considered desirable
Whether or not it is desirable, it is there and there are makefiles
which use it and a change would break them.
>, it would
> be nice to have some way of telling make what I want to tell it, which
> is simply that I want all special handling of intermediate files
> disabled (i.e. no automatic removal or strangely weakened dependency
> handling).
We are discussing this very subject here https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60297.
Also, always give .SECONDARY some prerequisites, otherwise performance suffers.
See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51454.
regards, Dmitry