Re: var used by implicit rule

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Ken Smith <address@hidden> writes:

  ks> I understand now.  How can I specify rules for tools such as
  ks> latex2html which produce numerous output files?  latex2html
  ks> produces WARNINGS, index.html, internals.pl, labels.pl,
  ks> input_file_name.html, and input_file_name.css from
  ks> input_file_name.tex.  I have only found a use for the HTML output
  ks> bearing the same basename as the input TeX file and wish to treat
  ks> the others as intermediate.

Maybe the easiest thing to do is just delete them inside the rule that
creates them, if you never want to keep them:

    %.html %.css : %.tex
            latex2html $<
            @rm -f WARNINGS index.html internals.pl labels.pl

or whatever?

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