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. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list Make-w32@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32