Are you saying that VPATH can not be used to find intermediate targets, such as
objects built by the compiler?
Thanks for your help.
Jim Potts - Reuters
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%% Crni Gorac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
cg> Project foo has following directory hierarchy:
cg> foo
cg> |-- Makefile
cg> |-- ab
cg> | `-- foo.a
cg> `-- c
cg> File foo/ab/foo.b should be generated from
cg> foo/ab/foo.a and then file foo/c/foo.c from
cg> foo/ab/foo.b. Following Makefile is used:
cg> ABDIR = ab
cg> CDIR = c
cg> VPATH = $(ABDIR)
cg> Where I am wrong? Why it is not possible for make to accomplish
cg> two successive multiple character matching and conclude that it
cg> should first generate .b file, then .c file?
That's not the problem. The problem is you're misusing VPATH.
VPATH is designed to find _sources_. It cannot be used to find
_targets_. It won't work to use it like that.
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