Re: Bug with intermediate files?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 12:07 +0330, ali hagigat wrote:
> You are mistaken, because if you remove:
> .INTERMEDIATE: my.gch
> Make will consider my.gch as an intermediate file! please look at the
> result by make:
> 
> kkkkkkkk
> hhhhhhhhhh
> rm my.gch

Yes, you're right.

This was a bug in GNU make 3.81, that was fixed in GNU make 3.82:

        $ cat /tmp/x2.mk
        .INTERMEDIATE: my.gch
        %.all: %.gch
                @echo hhhhhhhh
        %.gch:
                @echo kkkkkkkk
                @touch $@
        
        $ ls -al my.*
        ls: cannot access my.*: No such file or directory
        
        $ ./make --version
        GNU Make 3.82
        Built for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
        Copyright (C) 2010  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
        License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later
        <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
        This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute
        it.
        There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
        
        $ ./make -f /tmp/x2.mk my.all
        kkkkkkkk
        hhhhhhhh
        rm my.gch


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