Re: pkg/56259 (Bulding eltclsh loops infinitely)

[David Holland <dholland%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/56259; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: Michael van Elst <mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/56259 (Bulding eltclsh loops infinitely)
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2021 23:17:20 +0000

 On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 11:36:55PM +0200, Michael van Elst wrote:
  > > probably whatever $(MKDEP) they were using wasn't producing the right
  > > output file name.
  > 
  > It (intentionally) didn't produce anything with MKDEP=':'. But '-include'
  > should be a nop if the file doesn't exist and 'include' should just
  > fail.
 
 gmake tries to rebuild input files. You have to be somewhat cautious
 about how you set it up.
 
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 David A. Holland
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