gnu make 4.3 breaks the build

[Natanael Copa]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 12:02:36 +0100
Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:

> On 2020-01-27 23:01, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 21:26:17 +0100
> > Magnus Ihse Bursie <magnus.ihse.bursie at oracle.com> wrote:
> >  
> >> On 2020-01-27 12:37, Natanael Copa wrote:  
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> this is a follow up on https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/build-dev/2020-January/026635.html

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> > https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?57676  
> 
> I've found the culprit. The "-include" statement does not work properly. 
> Manually checking for the existence of the file and then using "include" 
> works fine. I would consider this a bug in make. Feel free to pass this 
> information along to the upstream make project.
> 
> Nevertheless, since this is spotted "in the wild" in a released version 
> of GNU make, we need to patch around it. I'll post a patch shortly.

Awesome!

I will forward it upstream.

Good work! Thank you.

-nc