First off, I *have* read the info pages about vpath and http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/vpath.html. I think I know why gmake's doing this, I just don't like it. Consider this Makefile: --------------------------------------CUT--------------------------------------- PWD=$(shell pwd) vpath %.a $(PWD)/lib LIBDIR = $(PWD)/lib TARGET = libtest.a all: $(TARGET) $(TARGET): touch $(@) install: all $(LIBDIR)/$(TARGET) $(LIBDIR)/$(TARGET): $(TARGET) cp $(<) $(@) clean: -rm -f $(TARGET) --------------------------------------CUT--------------------------------------- and then this script: $ mkdir lib $ make Makefile:12: Commands were specified for file `libtest.a' at Makefile:17, Makefile:12: but `libtest.a' is now considered the same file as `/home/msterret/testgmake/lib/libtest.a'. Makefile:12: Commands for `/home/msterret/testgmake/lib/libtest.a' will be ignored in favor of those for `libtest.a'. gmake: Circular /home/msterret/testgmake/lib/libtest.a <- /home/msterret/testgmake/lib/libtest.a dependency dropped. cp /home/msterret/testgmake/lib/libtest.a cp: missing destination file Try `cp --help' for more information. gmake: *** [/home/msterret/testgmake/lib/libtest.a] Error 1 Eeeeeeeew. In addition, it ends up doing the $(LIBDIR)/$(TARGET) target which, for us, basically means it just installed a non-working library. It's too bad that there's not a variable that's the *opposite* of GPATH. Then I could set it appropriately and not have this problem. What I want to do is have a vpath statement similar to the one above in our "global" Makefile. Then, in the application Makefiles I can say something like: $(TARGET): $(OBJS) $(LIBS) $(CCLD) $(OBJS) $(LIBS) -o $@ Where LIBS looks like -la -lb -lc, etc. and gmake will use vpath to find the libraries. This works great for the application directories, but when I'm in the library directory, it produces the ugliness above. I could probably set vpath conditionally by looking at pwd, but that seems like a kludge. Can I do what I want in a better way? Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
