%% Barry D Benowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
bdb> VPATH =/my/library/path
bdb> target : target.o -lmylib
bdb> What happened was it found the library (libmylib.a) generated the
bdb> full path to it (ie /my/library/path/libmylib.a) and included
bdb> that.
Yes, this is exactly what the manual says will happen.
bdb> What I hoped would happen is that it would maintain the -l so
bdb> that the library would be searched, instead of included. How can
bdb> I do this?
Any number of ways. For example:
LIBS = -lmylib
VPATH = /my/library/path
target: target.o $(LIBS)
$(CC) -o $@ $(filter-out %.a,$^) $(VPATH:%=-L%) $(LIBS)
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