Re: Quietly and eagerly deleting intermediate files

[Jed Brown]

Thanks for this explanation, Paul.  I'll stick with deleting the files
myself.

Paul Smith <address@hidden> writes:

> On Mon, 2017-01-09 at 12:39 -0700, Jed Brown wrote:
>> Is there a way, short of recursive make, to eagerly delete the
>> intermediates?
>
> There is not such a way.  Intermediates are always and only removed at
> the end of the make run.  It sort of has to be this way since make
> cannot know whether or not the intermediate file will be needed again,
> until it's completed all its work.
>
> Make doesn't first compute all the things that need to be built, then
> walks the list building them.  Instead it just starts at the initial
> goal node in the graph and keeps building things until it discovers
> that there's nothing left to be built.
>
> Using recursion is your only option, if you must have the intermediate
> files removed as you go (and you want make to do it rather than doing
> it yourself in your makefile).

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