Re: How to deal with a target in the dependence chain that is deleted after the command execution?

[Allan Odgaard]

On 27 Dec 2009, at 05:13, Peng Yu wrote:

> [...]
> I can not easily find that I need to use either .INTERMEDIATE or
> .SECONDARY from the table of content below.

You can let make delete ‘test.txt’ after use by making it a  
prerequisite of the special .INTERMEDIATE goal, but I am not sure this  
is what you want.

What you do need is use ‘gzip -f $<’ or alternatively ‘gzip < $< > address@hidden  
to avoid the replace warning your original post mentioned. Other than  
that, I don’t see any problems with your Makefile.