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From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
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Subject: Re: Make GNU Make behave like BSD Make?
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In the last episode (Jul 13), David Kelly said:
> Yes, but the problem is that I want to make GNU Make behave the BSD way.
> Specifically my application is an embedded AVR and it really needs to
> build fairly painlessly under the WinAVR environment where GNU Make is
> painlessly bundled. Yet I also often use FreeBSD and ports/devel/avr*.
> 
> I do have gmake installed on FreeBSD so that isn't an issue. Another way
> to say what I'm trying to do is that gmake barfs if "include .depend"
> is specified but .depend does not exist. The result is "make depend" is
> not a solution for creating .depend.
> 
> Its not a problem for *me* to "touch .depend" the first time. OTOH it
> stymied my boss.

I believe "-include .depend" will tell gmake to try to include the file
but not complain if it's not there.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com