Thanks for this explanation, Paul. I'll stick with deleting the files myself.
Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> writes: > On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 12:39 -0700, Jed Brown wrote: >> Is there a way, short of recursive make, to eagerly delete the >> intermediates? > > There is not such a way. Intermediates are always and only removed at > the end of the make run. It sort of has to be this way since make > cannot know whether or not the intermediate file will be needed again, > until it's completed all its work. > > Make doesn't first compute all the things that need to be built, then > walks the list building them. Instead it just starts at the initial > goal node in the graph and keeps building things until it discovers > that there's nothing left to be built. > > Using recursion is your only option, if you must have the intermediate > files removed as you go (and you want make to do it rather than doing > it yourself in your makefile).
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