%% Harsha Kalidindi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If you run "make install", then make says "OK, I need to build >> ../install/scripts/foo". It looks to see if that file exists. If it >> does, then VPATH is never consulted.
hk> We expect the above behavior.
>> If it doesn't exist, then if VPATH is defined make uses it to try to >> find the target.
hk> This is how it is working and it is still what we expect it to do.
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hk> Does it look at the individual paths in VPATH plus the relative hk> targets (../install/scripts/foo, in this case) first or does it hk> look at just the relative targets from the directory of execution hk> first?
I'm not exactly sure I'm understanding you: I explained it and you said this is what you expected... then asked how it works :).
You make me sound like some of current news makers ..
GNU make works exactly as I've described above: first it looks for the pathname exactly as it is given in the makefile.
Breakthrough. No more failure to communicate. This is the nub of the issue ..
If that doesn't exist, _then_ it appends the pathname that is given in the makefile onto each entry in VPATH, in order, and looks for that.
VPATH=/u/p/src install: ../install/scripts/foo $(INSTALL) ..
Command run in '/u/user/src'. If /u/user/src/../install/scripts/foo does not exist, I would expect it to run the command instead of looking into /u/p/src/../install/scripts/foo ..
It is not running the command when /u/user/src/../install/scripts/foo does not exist.
Regards, Harsha
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