Re: Problem with -include target in make-3.81(bug?)
From:
Harvey Chapman
Subject:
Re: Problem with -include target in make-3.81(bug?)
Date:
Wed, 5 May 2010 18:52:25 -0400
On May 5, 2010, at 1:43 PM, Stephan Beal wrote:
If you want make to simply ignore a makefile which does not exist and cannot be remade, with no error message, use the -include directive instead of include, like this:
"cannot be remade" implies this behavior, but it doesn't actually state that Make will try to build the missing makefile. I can see where users would get confused.