> I believe the point of Martin's rhetorical query is "why should make treat > the failure of *this* pattern rule any different than the failure of the > many other pattern rules that would have permitted this compilation > to complete?"
It seems that I need to try harder for the desired clarification of consequences when a specific source file (like an interface description file for the programming language “OCaml”) can be occasionally treated as an optional item in some software areas. There will not be any make rule specified for a file type which was intentionally left out for a specific source item. The general challenge is to find out for how long something can be omitted (while its use can be recommended in several situations). Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
