Follow-up Comment #18, bug #60297 (project make):
I strongly second Dmitry's proposal that something like .NOTINTERMEDIATE:
(preferably with a no-dependencies-means-all interpretation) should be added.
The IMO weird behavior of .SECONDARY where it effectively creates strange weak
dependencies
On Mon, Apr 5, 2021 at 7:28 PM Britton Kerin 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
I don't like how .SECONDARY: (without prereqs) causes make to not
rebuild things wen intermediate files are missing, e.g. uncommenting
.SECONDARY in this make file causes make to not rebuild even when
foo.c.validation_stamp is removed:
OBJS = foo.o
#.SECONDARY:
OBJS = foo.o bar.o
