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From: Roland Exler <R DOT Exler AT jk DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at>
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Subject: Re: make deletes files needed?!
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 14:10:09 -0700
Organization: Institute for el. Measurement, University of Linz, Austria
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According to my question Bill Currie wrote:
> You need the following line somewhere in your makefile (tested).  See 'info make
> imp chain' for more info on intermediate files.
> 
> .PRECIOUS: $(addprefix $(OUT_DIR),$(LMS_ERR))
>    ... rest deleted
> This should help
> Bill

It helps, but info says, that .PRECIOUS is only needed if the intermediate files 
are not mentioned in the makefile - but they are! Else make would not remake them 
if invoked again and doesn't delete them on the second pass.

It looks for me as if there is a real bug in make!

Thanks anyway,
  Roland

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