Re: Why is make not deleting intermediate files?

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:48 -0800, Reece Hart wrote:
> .INTERMEDIATE: %.dep

The .INTERMEDIATE pseudo-target does not accept patterns.  If it did,
the manual would say that explicitly (and it doesn't).  You have to list
the target itself here.  What the above does is declare the explicit
target '%.dep' as intermediate.  You want:

        .INTERMEDIATE: twice.dep

However, making that fix still didn't fix the problem for me in GNU make
3.82.  However checking the latest CVS version I see that it works as
expected:

        $ grep twice.dep Makefile
        another: twice.dep
        .INTERMEDIATE: twice.dep
        
        $ rm -f once* twice*; make-cvs oncetwice
        oncetwice: once twice
        rm once.dep twice.dep