remake.c patch

[Sean B. Palmer]

"$ make love" gives an error message inconsistent with hacker
lore [1]. The following patch resolves this problem.
[[[
1023a1024,1025
>           const char *msg_notwar
>             = _("Not war?");
1028c1030,1032
<               if (file->parent == 0)
---
>               if ((strcmp(file->name, "love") == 0) && (file->parent == 0))
>                 fatal (NILF, msg_notwar);
>               else if (file->parent == 0)
1036c1040,1042
<               if (file->parent == 0)
---
>               if ((strcmp(file->name, "love") == 0) && (file->parent == 0))
>                 error (NILF, msg_notwar);
>               else if (file->parent == 0)
]]] - for make-3.80/remake.c
Thanks,

[1] http://www.kgb.com/dcl/199108.txt
TECO on VAX/VMS used to do this... why not GNU make? You can't
let TECO make be the ferior product :-)
--
Sean B. Palmer, <http://purl.org/net/sbp/>
"phenomicity by the bucketful" - http://miscoranda.com/


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