It would be nice if there were such a thing as conditional includes.
For example:
depend:: -include dependencies
Then in the case where the dependencies file has an error, the dependencies
file would not be included when doing 'make depend'.
We structure our Makefiles as follows:
depend::
@makedepend -o dependencies ....
-include dependencies
However, if someone deletes a file that is used as a dependency in the
dependencies file, make fails with an error. Any attempt to do 'make depend'
fails with the same error -- still including the dependencies file. The only
recourse is to delete the dependencies file and then do 'make depend'. This
is difficult to communicate to a large development staff, and breaks automated
build procedures.
IMO, the following __might__ solve such a problem:
depend::
@makedepend -o dependencies ....
$(filter-out depend, $(COMMON_TARGETS)):: -include dependencies
which would only include the dependencies file when NOT invoked as
'make depend'.
If there is a better way, please let me know.
Reid
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