Re: forcing a rule

[Noel Yap]

Boris Kolpackov wrote:
> I agree with all that you've said. But I still think it's a bad
> practice to silently ignore patches and effort people put in
> creating them. I for example went an extra mile and added
> documentation for $(lastword) so that it would be complete.

I can't speak for the GNU make project (and I don't have time to read up on the 
topic), but another open source project I've worked on _requires_ documentation 
of a patch just to be considered for inclusion.

Noel