%% Harsha Kalidindi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> GNU make works exactly as I've described above: first it looks for the >> pathname exactly as it is given in the makefile.
hk> Breakthrough. No more failure to communicate. This is the nub of hk> 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.
hk> VPATH=/u/p/src hk> install: ../install/scripts/foo hk> $(INSTALL) ..
hk> Command run in '/u/user/src'. If hk> /u/user/src/../install/scripts/foo does not exist, I would expect hk> it to run the command instead of looking into hk> /u/p/src/../install/scripts/foo ..
Well, that's actually the entire purpose of VPATH: to tell make where else to look if it can't find the prerequisite by the pathname that the makefile provides. If you don't want that behavior then you will have to stop using VPATH. Presumably there's some other reason you need it, and the above is just an unwanted side-effect?
Yes. We need VPATH for it to actually find source files when they do not exist on a sparse shadow. This is a side-effect of that ..
The other option is to use the "vpath <pattern>" form to restrict the VPATH lookup to only a subset of all the prerequisites in the makefile.
Now we know it is not bizarre behavior. We will just live with it till we modify how we set VPATH ..
Regards, Harsha
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