https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=253523
Bug ID: 253523
Summary: make: VPATH works, .PATH does not
Product: Base System
Version: 11.4-STABLE
Hardware: Any
OS: Any
Status: New
Severity: Affects Only Me
Priority: ---
Component: bin
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
I'd like to be able to specify the actual location of the sources on make's
command line.
Doing it with
make .PATH=/path/to/sources
does not work. But
make VPATH=/path/to/sources
works. The manual page labels VPATH as deprecated -- advising use of .PATH
instead. Clearly, .PATH is not a complete replacement.
However, .PATH is also frowned upon by the manual page...
I suppose, I can always add a line like:
.PATH: ${THEPATH}
then invoke make with THEPATH=/path/to/sources -- but why is this any better?
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