On Fri, 2024-10-11 at 09:45 +, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> Paul Smith (10 October 2024 17:56) wrote:
> > .PRECIOUS is dangerous and should almost never be needed or used.
>
> This danger can be avoided by having a recipe (or the command it
> runs) generate the new file under an alternative name
Paul Smith (10 October 2024 17:56) wrote:
> .PRECIOUS is dangerous and should almost never be needed or used. Its
> goal is to prevent make from deleting files automatically when a
> recipe fails (for any reason). There are very few, very rare
> situations where this is what you want, because it
On Thu, 2024-10-10 at 11:45 -0400, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
> There is little benefit to mark files built by static pattern rules
> precious, because static pattern rules do not build intermediate
> files.
It's a mistake to consider .PRECIOUS in the context of intermediate
files. This is a common
On Thursday, October 10, 2024, Britton Kerin
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 4:01 PM Dmitry Goncharov
wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 11:16 PM Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> >
>> > Manual says:
>> >
>> >You can list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as '%.o')
>> >as a prerequisite
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 7:16 PM Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> Manual says:
>
>You can list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as '%.o')
>as a prerequisite of the special target '.PRECIOUS' to preserve
>intermediate files made by implicit rules whose target patterns match
>that f
Thanks. OK, the manual should say that
>> .PRECIOUS: %.o
will usually work,
>> .PRECIOUS: *.o
will never work, (unless the file really has an asterisk in its name)
and
>> .PRECIOUS: file.o
will always work.
On Tue, Oct 8, 2024 at 11:16 PM Dan Jacobson wrote:
>
> Manual says:
>
>You can list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as '%.o')
>as a prerequisite of the special target '.PRECIOUS' to preserve
>intermediate files made by implicit rules whose target patterns match
>that
Manual says:
You can list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as '%.o')
as a prerequisite of the special target '.PRECIOUS' to preserve
intermediate files made by implicit rules whose target patterns match
that file's name; see *note Interrupts::.
Well say which of
.PRECIOUS:
