I believe this is a known bug: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?32042
Sorry, I didn't find the bug list...I tried to work around it by setting .INTERMEDIATE but the effect was opposite to the expected: now make doesn't delete intermediate files at all... (BTW searching for INTERMEDIATE doesn’t produce anything relevant).
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