On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 7:28 PM Britton Kerin <britton.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > Even if this behavior of .SECONDARY: is considered desirable
Whether or not it is desirable, it is there and there are makefiles which use it and a change would break them. >, it would > be nice to have some way of telling make what I want to tell it, which > is simply that I want all special handling of intermediate files > disabled (i.e. no automatic removal or strangely weakened dependency > handling). We are discussing this very subject here https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60297. Also, always give .SECONDARY some prerequisites, otherwise performance suffers. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?51454. regards, Dmitry
