%% "Reynolds, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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rj> I've been reading the GNU make manual and trying to understand how
rj> make will search subdirs for files that are dependencies. So far,
rj> I've not had much luck.
rj> VPATH = .;hello2
rj> objects = hello.o hello2.o
rj> all : hello
rj> hello : $(objects)
rj> gcc -o hello $(objects)
rj> hello.o : hello.cpp
rj> gcc -c hello.cpp
rj> hello2.o : hello2.cpp
Your problem is you're writing these rules incorrectly. See the GNU
make manual, section ``Writing Shell Commands With Directory Search''.
If you want to use VPATH, you can't write the names of the targets or
prerequisites directly in the command scripts; here you _explicitly_ use
hello, hello.cpp, and $(objects) in your compile/link invocation lines.
You _MUST_ use automatic variables, not explicit values, if you want to
use VPATH.
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