Re: .SECONDARY vs. .PRECIOUS doc of danger

2009-06-29 Thread jidanni
PG> In contrast, the description of .SECONDARY only mentions targets and PG> not target patterns. Please add warnings about this, otherwise "we new car buyers looking for the benefits of .PRECIOUS without the pitfalls of interrupts" will "fall for it" every time. I mean "the car salesman" in the I

Re: .SECONDARY vs. .PRECIOUS doc of danger

2009-06-29 Thread Philip Guenther
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 9:32 AM, wrote: > You fellows have a lot of explaining to do. (On the Info page, not to me.) > > In (info "(make) Special Targets") > `.PRECIOUS' >     ...Also, if the target is an intermediate file, it will not be >     deleted after it is no longer needed, as is normally

.SECONDARY vs. .PRECIOUS doc of danger

2009-06-29 Thread jidanni
You fellows have a lot of explaining to do. (On the Info page, not to me.) In (info "(make) Special Targets") `.PRECIOUS' ...Also, if the target is an intermediate file, it will not be deleted after it is no longer needed, as is normally done... In this latter respect it overlaps wi