[bug #35132] Side effects of .SECONDARY with no targets not documented

[anonymous]

URL:
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                 Summary: Side effects of .SECONDARY with no targets not
documented
                 Project: make
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Tue 20 Dec 2011 10:07:20 PM UTC
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: Documentation
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
       Component Version: 3.82
        Operating System: POSIX-Based
           Fixed Release: None
           Triage Status: None

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Details:

There are some side effects associated with intermediate/secondary targets
that aren't documented in any real detail in the documentation.

The documentation for .SECONDARY gives the impression you can use .SECONDARY
to disable automatic deletion of intermediate targets, but doing so causes a
number of side effects that produce unpredictable behavior in a build.

Unfortunately, I do not have a concise or publishable example demonstrating
the problem; however, I outlined it on this thread:

http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.utils.bug/browse_frm/thread/d882703f60b20ea5?hl=en#

-Brian




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