Hi,
suppose that you have some include-statement in the makefile like this:
include foo.d
and make knows how to generate foo.d.
Then you get a message that foo.d is missing _and_ after that make
generates foo.d.
These warning/error-messages are very misleading and clutter up useful
warnings and messages of the build process.
The -include workaround is dangerous, since it hides real bugs, where
make really cannot generate needed include-files.
I am annoyed by this bug for several make versions now - currently I am
using 3.81. I noticed that now at least the manual is consistent with
this make behaviour. But it is still a bug.
Best regards
Georg Sauthoff
--
Fortune : 'Real programmers don't comment their code.
It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.' ;)
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