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Not necessarily. In a regular MAKE project, simply removing a source file will leave an orphan target.
That's but what I require a solution to is the general problem.

> Why build orphan targets in the first place if you're just going to delete them?

The orphan target files aren't orphans when built...

> Make won't build orphans unless that target is either...

I have a complex multi-stage (media conversion and formatting) build process that leaves orphan target files needing deleting automatically (i.e. by reference only to the build rules themselves, not...