Re: sinclude/-incldue issue

Also please let us know the make version you are using. I too use -include
and it works perfectly for me.

Gurpreet

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-12-09 at 09:58 -0800, ssaradhi wrote:
> > we are using make file systems to build our source code.
> > We use some options like -include or sinclude to skip,if the file
> > thats
> > included is not existing.
> >
> > Yet for some reason,the make system fails at this very line
> > complaining that the very file included doesnt exist and make system
> > needs it.
> >
> > Any ideas,why make system is behaving like this?
>
> Not really.  If you want help you need to provide more details,
> including cut/paste of the command you invoked, the exact error message
> you received, and ideally a simple example makefile that shows the
> behavior.
>
> Offhand I'd say that some target in your makefile lists that include
> file as a prerequisite, and so make is trying to build it and failing
> because it doesn't exist and there's no rule to create it.
>
> The -include thing just keeps make from complaining that the file
> doesn't exist when it's being included: if you specifically list it as a
> prerequisite then make will want to build it, if things that depend on
> it are getting rebuilt.
>
>
>
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Gurpreet Singh

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