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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0000333 | 1003.1(2008)/Issue 7 | Shell and Utilities | public | 2010-10-13 04:39 | 2024-06-11 08:53 |
| Reporter | dwheeler | Assigned To | ajosey | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | Objection | Type | Enhancement Request |
| Status | Closed | Resolution | Accepted As Marked | ||
| Name | David A. Wheeler | ||||
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| Section | make | ||||
| Page Number | 2912 | ||||
| Line Number | 95668 | ||||
| Interp Status | --- | ||||
| Final Accepted Text | See 0000333:0000593 | ||||
| Summary | 0000333: Add support for silent includes using "-include" | ||||
| Description | The current specification for make permits "include", but does not have a "silent include" that ignores errors files do not exist. This is a disaster for automatically generating dependencies; a makefile could say "include DEPEND", but if DEPEND does not exist, the include fails, and thus any run using the makefile fails. But if the makefile is supposed to create DEPEND, we are unable to create DEPEND in the first place. For examples where this is important, see: http://www.xs4all.nl/~evbergen/nonrecursive-make.html GNU make supports both "-include" and "sinclude" for this purpose (see http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/make/Include.html). According to this message: http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-standards&m=118891505208650 NetBSD has added it, and FreeBSD has a patch available to support it. This proposal suggests adding just "-include", but supporting "sinclude" (as well) would be fine. This already exists in implementations, we just need to get it into the standard itself. | ||||
| Desired Action | Line 95668: After "If the word include" append "(optionally prefixed with '-')" Line 95686: At the end, append: "If the file(s) do not exist, and the word include was prefixed with '-', the include command is ignored. "If the file(s) do not exist, and the word include was not prefixed with '-', the processing ends in failure." | ||||
| Tags | issue8 | ||||
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Proposed new wording: At line 95668, change: If the word include appears at the beginning of a line to If the word include (optionally prefixed with a <hyphen> character) appears at the beginning of a line At line 95863, add the following: "If the file cannot be opened, and if the word include was prefixed with a <hyphen> character, the file shall be ignored. Otherwise, if the file cannot be opened an error occurs." |
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While preparing to apply this bug I noticed a typo in 0000333:0000593. Line 95863 should be 95683. Also, the parentheses should instead be commas so that the text is normative. These are editorial matters that I thought worth mentioning here, but not worth reopening the bug for. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | New Issue | |
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | Status | New => Under Review |
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | Assigned To | => ajosey |
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | Name | => David A. Wheeler |
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | Section | => make |
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | Page Number | => 2912 |
| 2010-10-13 04:39 | dwheeler | Line Number | => 95668 |
| 2010-10-28 16:43 | nick | Note Added: 0000593 | |
| 2010-12-16 17:14 | Don Cragun | Interp Status | => --- |
| 2010-12-16 17:14 | Don Cragun | Final Accepted Text | => See 0000333:0000593 |
| 2010-12-16 17:14 | Don Cragun | Status | Under Review => Resolved |
| 2010-12-16 17:14 | Don Cragun | Resolution | Open => Accepted As Marked |
| 2010-12-16 17:14 | Don Cragun | Tag Attached: issue8 | |
| 2020-02-07 10:40 | geoffclare | Note Added: 0004773 | |
| 2020-02-10 12:28 | geoffclare | Status | Resolved => Applied |
| 2020-03-18 15:21 | geoffclare | Relationship added | related to 0000518 |
| 2024-06-11 08:53 | agadmin | Status | Applied => Closed |
