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Re: [bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored


From: Philip Guenther
Subject: Re: [bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 13:48:09 -0700

On Wednesday, September 2, 2009, Michael Coleman
<address@hidden> wrote:
...
> (I'm tempted to say that make should specifically disallow a file from
> including itself (even indirectly).  Perhaps there is some use for this,
> though.)

I have some subsidiary makefiles that include themselves as long as a
variable isn't empty to implement unbound iteration, which $(for)
can't do.

Philip Guenther




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