"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> This is obliquely stated in the documentation:
>
> `.SECONDARY'
> The targets which `.SECONDARY' depends on are treated as
> intermediate files, except that they are never automatically
> deleted. *Note Chains of Implicit Rules: Chained Rules.
>
> `.SECONDARY' with no prerequisites marks all file targets mentioned
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> in the makefile as secondary.
>
> Note the second paragraph. The targets you give aren't mentioned in the
> makefile; they're built using implicit rules.
Yes, but aren't all explicitly mentioned targets considered secondary
anyway? If so, it seems like ".SECONDARY: " serves no purpose...
For the complex Makefiles I'm working on now, intermediate deletion
was causing deletion of object files which should not be deleted, and
I decided to just turn it off entirely. However, without .SECONDARY
behaving as I'd like it to, I don't see how to acheive this.
> I agree with you, however, that this is a strange restriction and this
> area needs to be revisited, for all of PRECIOUS, INTERMEDIATE, and
> SECONDARY.
>
> I'll file an enhancement request about it.
Thanks.
Seth
