On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 23:50 -0700, Perry Hutchison wrote: > While looking into something else, I ran into a case where make (3.82) > removes an intermediate target file after building the final target. > I had not expected this, and could not find any mention of such > behavior in the manual -- nor in the list archives -- although it's > certainly possible that I didn't use the right search terms. Is this > in fact normal, or have I perhaps found a bug?
It is expected, and documented: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Chained-Rules.html > The second difference is that if make does create b in order to update > something else, it deletes b later on after it is no longer needed. > Therefore, an intermediate file which did not exist before make also > does not exist after make. make reports the deletion to you by > printing a ‘rm -f’ command showing which file it is deleting. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
