On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 03:45:59PM -0500, Paul Smith wrote: > > I've never really been clear on the purpose and use of .SECONDARY; the > comments in both the GNU make manual and in the code seem odd to me. I > would really appreciate anyone out there who is using this (either for > specific targets or all by itself as in this example) to explain why > they use it / what they need it for.
When I use .SECONDARY:, what I really want to say is "don't delete any files you make". The two ways I know of doing this are: * explicitly name all files in the Makefile (which isn't necessarily simple) * .SECONDARY: Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
