Re: Misleading missing-file-messages if included file is generated

2008-09-01 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 15:39 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote: > suppose that you have some include-statement in the makefile like > this: > > include foo.d > > and make knows how to generate foo.d. > > Then you get a message that foo.d is missing _and_ after that make > generates foo.d. https://sava

Misleading missing-file-messages if included file is generated

2008-09-01 Thread Georg Sauthoff
Hi, suppose that you have some include-statement in the makefile like this: include foo.d and make knows how to generate foo.d. Then you get a message that foo.d is missing _and_ after that make generates foo.d. These warning/error-messages are very misleading and clutter up useful warnings an