Hello,
I searched in the bugs listed on Savannah but couldn’t find anything mentioning
that. I have the following Makefile:
$ cat Makefile
a.mk:
@false
-include a.mk
This is just to simulate the case when the recipe for an included Makefile
fails. When I run make (4.2.1) with this Makefile it outputs
$ make
make: *** No rule to make target `a.mk'. Stop.
This is confusing because clearly there is a rule. However, the output of make
-rd is
$ make -rd
GNU Make 4.2.1
...
Must remake target ‘a.mk'
...
Failed to remake target file ‘a.mk'
...
Considering target file 'a.mk’.
Recently tried and failed to update file 'a.mk'.
make: *** No rule to make target 'a.mk'. Stop
I think that in that case "Recently tried and failed to update file `a.mk’" is
a much more useful error message… Would that be hard to add ?
Thanks,
Philippe Blain.
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