Re: make is deleting the c files created during compilation

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 04:15:13PM +0100, J. Grant wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm experiencing an odd effect using GNU Make version 3.79.1.
> 
> When the file created during the execution of the makefile is deleted 
> based on this line "$(BMP2C) $< $(*F) > $@" in the Makefile below.
> 
> Does make have a rule that "deletes all files cat into automated 
> filenames" on exit or something?  I am not calling "rm cd.c" at any 
> point in the Makefile.

Make is deleting intermidiate files - which seems to be the case here.

See info make:
Implicit Rules | Chained Rules

        Sam