Re: unwanted rm command at output of execution.

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Scot Rider" <address@hidden> writes:

  sr> In the following stripped down makefile, I am finding an unwanted
  sr> "rm" command at the end of the makefile's execution. Could someone
  sr> tell me where it is coming from.  Better still, how to stop it.

See the GNU make manual, and look up intermediate files in the index.

  sr> I've noticed that if I replace the $< and $@ with ip.c and ip.o ,
  sr> the 'rm' command goes away

Hmm.  I doubt that.  It must have been a coincidence and something else
(like the file existed already, or another change to the makefile) kept
it from being deleted.

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