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authorRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1992-02-26 04:34:35 +0000
committerRoland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>1992-02-26 04:34:35 +0000
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@@ -5141,14 +5141,13 @@ create it.@refill
Intermediate files are remade using their rules just like all other
files. The difference is that the intermediate file is deleted when
-@code{make} is finished. Therefore, the intermediate file which did
-not exist before @code{make} also does not exist after @code{make}.
-The deletion is reported to you by printing a @samp{rm -f} command
-that shows what @code{make} is doing. (You can optionally define an
-implicit rule so as to preserve certain intermediate files. You can also
-list the target pattern of an implicit rule (such as @samp{%.o}) as a
-dependency file of the special target @code{.PRECIOUS} to preserve intermediate
-files whose target patterns match that file's name.)@refill
+@code{make} is finished. Therefore, the intermediate file which did not
+exist before @code{make} also does not exist after @code{make}. The
+deletion is reported to you by printing a @samp{rm -f} command that
+shows what @code{make} is doing. (You can list the target pattern of an
+implicit rule (such as @samp{%.o}) as a dependency file of the special
+target @code{.PRECIOUS} to preserve intermediate files made by implicit
+rules whose target patterns match that file's name.)@refill
@cindex intermediate files, preserving
@cindex preserving intermediate files
@cindex preserving with .PRECIOUS