Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 10:37:03 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: kaleb@x.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Minor change to make Message-ID: <199512041837.KAA10163@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199512021742.RAA14346@exalt.x.org>
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In article <199512021742.RAA14346@exalt.x.org> kaleb@x.org 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.
... which led to lots of ideas for controlling whether a diagnostic is
issued.
Hey, people! Why not change it to use make's established syntax for
ignoring errors?
-.include filename
should ignore the error, but
.include filename
should not.
Don't invent a new kind of wheel if you don't need to.
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