Re: forcing a rule

[Boris Kolpackov]

Hi Noel,

> 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.

If you read what I said more carefully you will see that I was 
talking about documentation for $(lastword), not for the patch 
itself (which was submitted too, btw).

-boris

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