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Date:      Sat, 02 Dec 1995 15:25:08 EDT
From:      "Kaleb S. KEITHLEY" <kaleb@x.org>
To:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Minor change to make 
Message-ID:  <199512022025.UAA14567@exalt.x.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 02 Dec 1995 22:38:40 EDT. <pw0jAmm874@ache.dialup.ru> 

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> In message <199512021742.RAA14346@exalt.x.org> Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
>     writes:
> 
> >I want make to silently ignore a failure to find a .include file. The 
> >reason I want this is because in the next release of X imake will generate
> >Makefiles that can use include files for dependencies if the system's make 
> >supports it.
> 
> >+ #if WANT_FATAL_INCLUDE_FAILURE
> >        Parse_Error (PARSE_FATAL, "Could not find %s", file);
> >+ #endif
>   
> Why not simple change PARSE_FATAL to PARSE_WARNING?
> I.e. this diagnostic prints (to help detect wrong includes),
> but it will be non-fatal.

Humbug. I don't want a build log filled with (more) nonsense warnings; 
I've already got enough of those as it is. 

It could emit a warning if make is run with "-d i" or something. Would
that make everyone happy?

--

Kaleb KEITHLEY



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