Re: var used by implicit rule

[bertold]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% bertold <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  b> I did rule for bison files, cause '-d' flag needed.  It is creates
>  b> the header file also. Now, make deletes the C source file, but not
>  b> the header.  Is there way to force make to do it?
>
> Make will delete any file it considers to be an "intermediate file".
> You can look up the term "intermediate" in the index of the GNU make
> manual to learn about it.
>
> You can force make to consider a target to be intermediate by making it
> a prerequisite of the .INTERMEDIATE special target.
>
>  
Make does consider file produced by Bison to be intermediate,
but i wrote implicit rule
%.tab.c: %.y
$(BS) $(BSFLAGS) $^
where BSFLAGS is `-d' and it will produce 2 files: C and H.
I tried
.INTERMEDIATE %.tab.h
but no use.