%% "Brock, Don E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  bde> There appears to a problem in the way that GNU make 3.80 on both
  bde> Solaris and Windows Y2K works with an undefined include file
  bde> name.  If a given include file is not found, then make will print
  bde> "No such file or directory" and then exit.  If no file name is
  bde> given at all, then it will print "no file name for `include'" and
  bde> continue processing.  I believe that the behavior should be than
  bde> if no file name is given, then it should print the error message
  bde> and then exit.

Hmm.  This would be an incompatible change... it's possible people are
using this capability in areas like:

  include $(wildcard *.mk)

If -include allows it to succeed that might be good enough.  I'll think
about this.

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