sinclude

[Ted Lyngmo XX]

Hi!

I'm not sure if this is a bug but ...

Regarding:

sinclude $(file)

This doesn't return an error if $(file) does not exist, which is expected.

It also doesn't return an error if $(file) exists but isn't readable, which was 
unexpected and a difference between clearmake (which we are replacing) and 
gmake.

I'm not sure now many make systems that has support for 'sinclude' and how the 
implementations differ, but to us at least, it'd be good if sinclude failed if 
$(file) exists but isn't readable. We just noticed it because we had temporary 
problems reading some sincluded files in some directories and the compilation 
just continued, resulting in a product missing vital parts.


Right now, we're thinking of replacing all our:

sinclude $(file)

with something like this

ifneq ($(wildcard $(file)),)
include $(file)
endif

to get the same result we had when using 'clearmake'.


Best regards,
Ted Lyngmo