Re: suppressing "No such file or directory" upon include

[Noel Yap]

Yeah, I figured it wasn't going to be a straight-forward fix since the bug 
report was posted about two years ago.

Thanks for giving more info.

Noel

Boris Kolpackov wrote:

> Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Is there any way to suppress the "No such file or directory" error 
> > generated by "include" unless it's possible to create the included 
> > makefile?
>
>
> I was thinking about fixing this some time ago but apparently to do
> it right is going to be messy. As we know make gives an error message 
> with a file name and a line number if makefile is missing and later, if 
> it cannot be built, make just says "unable to build...". Now if we are 
> to postpone the first message until rebuild time then we'll need to store 
> this file:line information somewhere. And that's where things get messy.
>
>
> > I'd rather not use -include because it ignores errors altogether.
>
>
> My "meantime solution" is to change include to -include once things
> get stable.
>
> hth,
> -boris
>
>
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