Re: -include completely turns off errors

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  ny> This behaviour persists even if an order rule is used:

  ny> # GNUmakefile
  ny> -include foo.mk

  ny> .PHONY: all
  ny> all: | foo.mk
  ny>   @echo $(@)

  >> I have the following makefile:
  >> 
  >> -include foo.mk
  >> 
  >> .PHONY: all
  >> all: foo.mk
  >> @echo all
  >> 
  >> 
  >> Since there's no rule to create foo.mk, I'd expect the build to fail 
  >> since all is dependent on foo.mk, but it seems that the -include turns 
  >> off this error.  Is this a bug?

I've just committed changes which I believe fix these issues.

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