Harlan, On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Harlan Stenn wrote:
HS>It is ugly to add $(srcdir) to the targets (and perhaps dependencies), HS>but that may have to happen. For the 'foreseeable future' - yes. HS>If I say: HS> HS>srcdir=wherever HS>VPATH: $(srcdir) HS> HS>a: b HS> HS>b: c HS> cd $(srcdir) && script c > b HS> HS>then it is Strange that make will correctly see that for 'a', the HS>dependency is 'b' and 'b' is found in $(srcdir)/b, yet for the 2nd HS>rule, 'b' is expected to be in the current directory. Are you sure that make sees a? Try make -dm and you'll see that it doesn't see a, nor b for the seconds rule. harti _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"