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Date:      Fri, 31 Aug 2001 09:43:05 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile src/etc/defaults make.conf src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips src/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common new.sgml src/share/examples/etc README.examples make.conf src/share/man/man5 make.conf.5 src/share/man/man7 build.7 ... 
Message-ID:  <200108311543.f7VFh5h04848@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 31 Aug 2001 14:15:49 %2B0300." <20010831141549.A55775@sunbay.com> 
References:  <20010831141549.A55775@sunbay.com>  <200108302244.f7UMipb68871@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010831112802.A32037@sunbay.com> <20010831125424.A1012@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.d> 

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In message <20010831141549.A55775@sunbay.com> Ruslan Ermilov writes:
: What is the reason that make(1) should .error (read: exit 1;
: the following .include is meaningless) if it encounters the
: /etc/defaults/make.conf?  Since the user was not supposed to
: edit this file, and the only uncommented thing was BDECFLAGS,
: wouldn't it be more intuitive to just stop including it, but
: not bail out?

I agree.  There's no reason to error out for something like this....

Warner

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