Re: unwanted rm command at output of execution.

[Johan Bezem]

make deletes intermediate (produced by make as a result from '%'-rules, and
not directly indicated as a target on the command line, or sth along those
lines) results as soon as they're not needed any more (for possibly other
productions. See the docs for ".PRECIOUS" for how to 'switch this off'.

Ciao,

Johan Bezem
CSK Software AG

Scot Rider wrote:
> 
> In the following stripped down makefile, I am finding an unwanted "rm"
> command at the end of the makefile's execution. Could someone tell me where
> it is coming from.  Better still, how to stop it.
> I've noticed that if I replace the $< and $@ with   ip.c and ip.o , the
> 'rm' command goes away
> 
> ==== pertinent part of makefile: ======
> 
> %.o : %.c
>              $(CC) $(FLAGS) $(INCLUDE) -c $< -o $@
> 
> % :  %.o
>              echo hello2
> 
> ======== execution =========
> >make  --no-builtin-variables ip1
> 
> ======== output ============
> 
> /usr/ibmcxx/bin/xlc  -c ip1.c -o ip1.o
> echo hello2
> hello2
> rm ip1.o
> 
> Scot
> 
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