On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 4:29 PM Frank Heckenbach <f.heckenb...@fh-soft.de> wrote:
> - just ".SECONDARY:" with no prerequisites which makes all > targets secondary (like I want), but also makes all targets > immediate, e.g. with this Makefile, if y exists and x doesn't, > it will remake x, but not y, which is not what I want: You also do not want this, because this hurts performance badly. > Am I missing a way to do it without adverse side-effects? No. This is the state of affairs. There is a proposed solution .NOTINTERMEDIATE: You can use it like this .NOTINTERMEDIATE: %.h %.d hello.z This will cause %.d %.h and hello.z files to not be treated as intermediate. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60297. If you can build make yourself you can apply the patch attached to this proposal. regards, Dmitry
