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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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