On Sun, 11 Jun 2006, Wouter van Ooijen wrote:

>> Make stops on the first error unless told otherwise (with
>> command line options).
>
> Yes, but only *inside the commands for rules*. I'd much prefer to give
> an error message and stop make *before any rules are attempted*.
> Perferrably even before *the rest of the file is even interpreted*
> (because that might cause all kinds of weird errors, confusing the
> user).

You make a rule that checks the file, and put it in the target list 
before all the others. Did you check the makefile I sent you ?

Peter
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