Re: Build: Try to convince `make' to keep intermediate files. (issue 5490077)

[Julien Rioux]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:42 AM,  <address@hidden> wrote:
> Works with no problem on my (single-processor) Fedora system, for what
> little that is worth.
>
> Could you point out which files are affected by .SECONDARY, Julien, so
> users of the affected systems might test specifically to see if this
> addresses their problem?

One of the problem in addressing the various reports is precisely that
there is not specifically a single file that you can test for. But
generally if out.html is generated from out.texi which is generated
from in.texi, then make would consider out.texi an intermediate file
and would remove it. If it is specifically marked as a target of
.SECONDARY or .PRECIOUS then make will not remove it.

> The machine-generated parser.cc, for example, is not deleted by make
> either with or without your patch.

I think this is one of the files marked as .PRECIOUS

> http://codereview.appspot.com/5490077/