Follow-up Comment #4, bug #55863 (project make): I think it means given the following makefile:
-load nonexistent.so all: @echo loaded: $(.LOADED) The hyphen has avoided Make saying "image not found // failed to load. Stop" but even with -load it still stops with "No rule to make target 'nonexistent.so'. Stop". Conversely the corresponding makefile for include, with "-include nonexistent.mk", will carry on and run recipes even though it has had no way to remake nonexistent.mk. This could be worked around by providing a rule to remake nonexistent.so as the manual's example does, but I can see why the OP might not want to do that if the dynamic object is intended to be supplied from some external directory. (I tried this with 4.2.1; I haven't tried recent development or the prerelease.) _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?55863> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/