new flag in configure to block the deletion of temporary files (Bugzilla Bug 2413)

[albbas]

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Bugzilla Bug 2413

Date: 2017-08-05T00:53:16+02:00
From: Robert Reynolds <>
To: Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen <<sjur.n.moshagen>>
CC: sjur.n.moshagen

Last updated: 2017-10-09T19:33:35+02:00

[albbas]

Comment 12521

Date: 2017-08-05 00:53:16 +0200
From: Robert Reynolds <>

After FSTs have compiled, the Makefile deletes all of the temporary files, for example:

t-desc.accented.tmp.hfst analyser-gt-norm.accented.hfst analyser-gt-desc.accented.hfst generator-gt-desc.accented.hf
st analyser-gt-norm.tmp.hfst analyser-disamb-gt-desc.accented.hfst generator-gt-norm.tmp.hfst analyser-gt-desc.tmp.h
fst generator-gt-desc.tmp.hfst generator-gt-norm.accented.hfst analyser-disamb-gt-desc.tmp.hfst analyser-disamb-gt-d
esc.accented.tmp.hfst analyser-gt-norm.accented.tmp.hfst```

Would it be possible to add a flag, something like `--keep-tmp` to skip the steps that `rm` these files?

[albbas]

Comment 12635

Date: 2017-10-04 16:36:30 +0200
From: Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen <<sjur.n.moshagen>>

Try making with V=1 (verbose build), I have a recollection of not all files being deleted then.

[albbas]

Comment 12638

Date: 2017-10-04 16:41:28 +0200
From: Sjur Nørstebø Moshagen <<sjur.n.moshagen>>

Not Android...

[albbas]

Comment 12668

Date: 2017-10-09 19:33:35 +0200
From: Robert Reynolds <>

make V=1 doesn't seem to have an effect on whether tmp files are removed.

[flammie]

it would be possible to declare targets in makefiles as .SECONDARY or .PRECIOUS behind if block in automake code, but it will be something that needs to be manually updated in all makefiles or automake scripts pretty much