[bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored

URL: Summary: fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored Project: make Submitted by: mkc Submitted on: Wed 02 Sep 2009 02:26:22 PM CDT Severity: 3 - Normal I

[bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored

Follow-up Comment #1, bug #27374 (project make): I see the error message: mart...@whitewater:~/playpen/make-27374$ make -f make.bug > /dev/null && echo success make.bug:1: make.bug: Too many open files success mart...@whitewater:~/playpen/make-27374$ The failure happens (for me) here in the st

[bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored

Follow-up Comment #2, bug #27374 (project make): Oops. I get the same message; I hadn't noticed that it scrolled off the top of my terminal. Nonetheless, I still think make should drop dead immediately in this case and also return an error status. My understanding is that 'include' may sometim

[bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored

Update of bug #27374 (project make): Status:None => Fixed Assigned to:None => psmith Open/Closed:Open => Closed Fixed Release:

Re: [bug #27374] fatal error reading included makefile silently ignored

On Wednesday, September 2, 2009, Michael Coleman wrote: ... > (I'm tempted to say that make should specifically disallow a file from > including itself (even indirectly).  Perhaps there is some use for this, > though.) I have some subsidiary makefiles that include themselves as long as a variable