Hello,
The manual says:
.PRECIOUS
(.) 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
with the .SECONDARY special target.
This does not appear to work:
with this makefile:
%/foobar: | %/.
touch $@
.SECONDARY: %/.
%/.:
mkdir -p $@
I get an attempt at removal:
mgaleck@mgaleck-xen{485}: make subdir/foobar
mkdir -p subdir/.
touch subdir/foobar
rm subdir/.make: unlink: subdir/.: Is a directory
If I replace ".SECONDARY" with ".PRECIOUS", then everything works fine.
??
Mark
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