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%% georgek@iluvatar.rsc.raytheon.com writes:

  g>    I read the manual (you mean the "info" pages, right?) and I'm still
  g> missing something. It might be easier to discuss this in context of an
  g> example (see example files appended). The effect I'm trying for is to
  g> have gnu make delete the files that it checked out of RCS: not ones
  g> that already existed. Unfortunately, the .INTERMEDIATE target will
  g> cause the file to be treated as intermediate (and deleted) regardless
  g> of whether make checked it out or just found it there. (Which is
  g> close, but not quite what I'm after.)

Previously I wrote that this worked correctly in GNU make 3.74 and was
since broken: that's completely untrue.

In 3.74, neither the .INTERMEDIATE nor .SECONDARY special targets
existed :-/.  Oh well.

Rather irksome that these aren't listed in the NEWS file for 3.75, where
they appear to have been introduced, but there you go.

So, I can only conclude they _never_ worked correctly :).

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