Thank you very much for your prompt -- and clear -- reply. I'll have my colleague fire up his browser.
Regards, Jim Paul D. Smith wrote: >%% Jim Tison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > jt> A colleague of mine asks an interesting question about VPATH. He > jt> claims that, within the execution of a single makefile, he has > jt> just made an object within a directory path named as one of the > jt> VPATH operands (not cwd). The very next rule within that same > jt> makefile states a dependency on that object, and make cannot find > jt> it through VPATH. > >VPATH, generally, cannot be used to locate derived objects. It can >_only_ be safely used to locate source objects--in particular, source >files or other files which the makefile does not itself create, but >builds things from. > >I suggest you take a look at my web site below; there is some >information there on how VPATH can, and cannot, be used that might shed >some light on your situation. > _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
