Follow-up Comment #6, bug #55532 (project make): Thanks, I agree with you.
BTW, my main motivation was to suppress the auto-removal of intermediate files in the chained implicit rules. Make 4.4 introduced .NOTINTERMEDIATE. This is a better fit to my purpose because it has no side-effect to $?. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55532> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/