On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 7:16 PM Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> Manual says:
>
>You can list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as '%.o')
>as a prerequisite of the special target '.PRECIOUS' to preserve
>intermediate files made by implicit rules whose target patterns match
>that f
Thanks. OK, the manual should say that
>> .PRECIOUS: %.o
will usually work,
>> .PRECIOUS: *.o
will never work, (unless the file really has an asterisk in its name)
and
>> .PRECIOUS: file.o
will always work.
Regarding
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Foreach-Function.html
I have spent hours and hours trying to figure out what you are trying to
say.
Yes I understand the sh, and perl "for" functions just fine.
The problem apparently is your example,
dirs := a b c d
files := $
On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 11:45 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> There is little benefit to mark files built by static pattern rules
> precious, because static pattern rules do not build intermediate
> files.
It's a mistake to consider .PRECIOUS in the context of intermediate
files. This is a common
On Thursday, October 10, 2024, Britton Kerin
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 4:01 PM Dmitry Goncharov
wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 11:16 PM Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> >
>> > Manual says:
>> >
>> >You can list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as '%.o')
>> >as a prerequisite
