Re: make error but no message

[Jeremiah Perry]

Okay, I just ran make 3.81 on Ubuntu 8.10 and had the same problem. I
put those three files in a directory, type make, and nothing
happens--nothing is built, and no error messages. It's not a big deal
but it does seem like a bug. Anyone know what might be happening?

Jeremiah

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Jeremiah Perry
<address@hidden> wrote:
> I'm using 3.81 on cygwin. I found the problem on a prebuilt binary,
> then I compiled make from source today (on cygwin) to see if the
> problem would go away but it didn't. I suppose it could be a cygwin
> problem....I'll try running it on Linux when I get home tonight.
>
> Jeremiah
>
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Sam Ravnborg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 02:07:56PM -0700, Jeremiah Perry wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I don't know if the following is a bug or not, but it came to my
>>> attention recently. I ran make on a project only to have make stop
>>> abruptly with no error messages. After some digging, I found one of my
>>> dependencies referred to a non-existent file. My dependency rules are
>>> in .d files that I then -include into the makefile. See the code
>>> example below. It seems this -include throws make off somehow so it
>>> doesn't issue any error messages. However, when I put the dependencies
>>> explicitly into the makefile, make tells me "*** No rule to make
>>> target `doesnt_exist.h', needed by `test.o'. Stop.", so that seems to
>>> be fine.
>>
>> I tried it here.
>> With make 3.80 it works as expected. I do not have 3.81 handy right now.
>> Which version of make did you use?
>>
>>        Sam
>>
>