On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Paul D. Smith wrote: > %% "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rpjd> apparently, a pattern with more than one '%' is not acceptable, > rpjd> but you don't find out about this until you actually try to use > rpjd> it in a rule. wouldn't it make more sense to immediately flag > rpjd> that vpath directive as being invalid? > > I'm not sure what you mean by "not acceptable"; it definitely is > acceptable. However, the second and subsequent % characters aren't > treated as patterns, they're just treated as plain "%" characters.
ah, that wasn't obvious from the vpath section. thanks. rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
