[bug #60297] optimize autodeps

[Paul D. Smith]

Follow-up Comment #9, bug #60297 (project make):

I haven't looked at the patches but one thing to note is that we already have
a target which is supposed to do what your .NOTINTERMEDIATE target does, as I
understand it that's the same thing .SECONDARY is supposed to do.  The problem
with .SECONDARY is, and has always been (.SECONDARY predates my involvement
with GNU make), that it doesn't accept patterns, only filenames, which makes
it pretty useless IMO (if you know the filenames you can just make a
do-nothing target that lists them as prerequisites and get basically the same
behavior).

Rather than introducing a new target, why not enhance the existing .SECONDARY
to support applying it to patterns?


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