Re: Problem with -include target in make-3.81(bug?)

[Greg Chicares]

On 2010-05-05 22:52Z, Harvey Chapman wrote:
> 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.

http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Include
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| 3.3 Including Other Makefiles
[...]
| Once it has finished reading makefiles, make will try to remake any that
| are out of date or don't exist.