Re: automatic removal of intermediate files
%% Greg Mattes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: gm A lot of time would have been saved if there had been a debug line gm immediately preceding the line with the rm that said something like: gm deleting intermediate files This is a good idea. Thanks. -- --- Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/ "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist
automatic removal of intermediate files
I'm running GNU make 3.78.1 on Solaris 2.7. I have some rules that involved intermediate files. These files are listed in a .SECONDARY rule because I need them to stick around. Before I realized that I needed to them to a .SECONDARY list I was very frustrated by make's automatic removal mechanism (I had never been exposed to it.) It took me a while to figure out why rm was being called at the end of the make. I ran make with the -d debugging switch hoping to gain some insight. The last 4 lines of output are include here (I snipped out the file names list since it was rather long) Finished prerequisites of target file `all'. Must remake target `all'. Successfully remade target file `all'. rm file list A lot of time would have been saved if there had been a debug line immediately preceding the line with the rm that said something like: deleting intermediate files I'd like to ask that you please add such a line to make's debug output. Using .PRECIOUS solved my problem. I used it as a guess. I did not know that .PRECIOUS had more than one use. After I realized that make was doing something intelligent with intermediate files and that .PRECIOUS fixed the problem I took a look at the docs and found the .SECONDARY target as well as the .PRECIOUS/.SECONDARY overlap. Thanks Greg Mattes __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
