When using the "-include filename"(instead of just "include filename"), if
this filename includes dependencies that are missing, makefile does not show
those missing dependencies...
For example, if using:
-include foo.d
with foo.d being:
foo.o: foo.c xxx.h
Let's say xxx.h does not exist (and
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:59 PM, willard wrote:
> When using the "-include filename"(instead of just "include filename"), if
> this filename includes dependencies that are missing, makefile does not show
> those missing dependencies...
>
> For example, if using:
>
> -include foo.d
>
> with foo.d b
this is my example (create the foo.d manually as below)
$ cat bad.mak
all: foo.d foo.ooo
COMPILE=gcc
%.o: %.c
$(COMPILE) -c $<
%.d: %.c
$(COMPILE) -c $< -MM -o $*.d
-include foo.d
foo.ooo: foo.o
ld -o foo.ooo foo.o
[/cygdrive/d/opentv/tstmake]
$ make -f bad.mak
make:
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:44 PM, willard wrote:
> this is my example (create the foo.d manually as below)
Well, now that you've shown your whole Makefile, I have a guess as to
why make is behaving as it is. It's tied that the face that you use
foo.d both as an implicit target (by virtue of being
