Re: var used by implicit rule

[Ken Smith]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% bertold <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   b> I believe, i am not using H file as a prerequisite.
>
> Mmm.  Yes.  In this case the problem is that make is not trying to build
> the .tab.h file at all.  All make really wants to build is the .c file,
> so it ignores the .h file completely.  It could be argued that make
> should treat the .h file as an intermediate file as will in this
> situation, but that's not what it does.
>
> However, using .INTERMEDIATE will work (but, you have to give the actual
> filename not a pattern).

I have created a small example along these lines that is not behaving as 
I expect.  The following is properly deleting document.css but it isn't 
deleting index.html.  Is there a requirement that the intermediate file 
specified by .INTERMEDIATE: must be a wildcard target or dependency in a 
pattern rule?

---Makefile---
all: document.html

.INTERMEDIATE: document.css
.INTERMEDIATE: index.html
index.html %.css %.html: %.tex
        latex2html -split 0 -no_navigation -show_section_numbers -nosubdir $<