Re: Oddity with make and % macro

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Brian J. Murrell" <address@hidden> writes:

  bjm> I am wondering why the "rm .bar-test"?  There is no "rm .foo" so it
  bjm> must have something to do with the % macro.

Indirectly.

Look at the section "Chains of Implicit Rules" in the GNU make manual,
and/or look up "intermediate files" in the index.

All will be made clear.

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