Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:08:07 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> Subject: Re: Make GNU Make behave like BSD Make? Message-ID: <20050713190807.GA75904@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050713182621.GA48396@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20050713145649.GA47667@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <42D53D89.20100@dial.pipex.com> <20050713182621.GA48396@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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In the last episode (Jul 13), David Kelly said: > Yes, but the problem is that I want to make GNU Make behave the BSD way. > Specifically my application is an embedded AVR and it really needs to > build fairly painlessly under the WinAVR environment where GNU Make is > painlessly bundled. Yet I also often use FreeBSD and ports/devel/avr*. > > I do have gmake installed on FreeBSD so that isn't an issue. Another way > to say what I'm trying to do is that gmake barfs if "include .depend" > is specified but .depend does not exist. The result is "make depend" is > not a solution for creating .depend. > > Its not a problem for *me* to "touch .depend" the first time. OTOH it > stymied my boss. I believe "-include .depend" will tell gmake to try to include the file but not complain if it's not there. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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