make - remove intermediate files silently

Question

When building a chain rule make automatically invokes rm to remove any intermediate files at the end of the build process. Since I have about 400 intermediate files to delete that way, that floods console output badly.

Is there a way to silently rm those intermediate files, so that eighter nothing will be echoed after the build is finished oder a message like "Removing intermediate files" is echoed?

Answer 1

You could run make -s or build your very own version of make with this patch applied:

diff --git file.c file.c
index ae1c285..de3c426 100644
--- file.c
+++ file.c
@@ -410,18 +410,6 @@ remove_intermediates (int sig)
                   {
                     if (! doneany)
                       DB (DB_BASIC, (_("Removing intermediate files...\n")));
-                    if (!silent_flag)
-                      {
-                        if (! doneany)
-                          {
-                            fputs ("rm ", stdout);
-                            doneany = 1;
-                          }
-                        else
-                          putchar (' ');
-                        fputs (f->name, stdout);
-                        fflush (stdout);
-                      }
                   }
                 if (status < 0)
                   perror_with_name ("unlink: ", f->name);