Re: trying to emulate "include"

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  ny> include X emits a message even if make is able to build the
  ny> makefile and succeed.  I want the message emitted with an error if
  ny> and only if the makefile doesn't exist and make doesn't know how
  ny> to build it.

You can't do that.

If you don't use "-include" and instead just use "include", then make
will throw an error itself in the case you mention above.

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