On Thu, 2016-06-16 at 18:35 -0600, Erasmo Aguilera wrote: > I am working on a project with two directory trees: one for sources > and another for output files. I run mingw-make from the source tree > and add the output tree root to VPATH so that their files can be found > when acting as prerequisites. But it doesn’t so when such > prerequisites specify their path from the root with forward slashes. > It gives me the error “cannot open input file”. However, if I change > the forward slashes for backslashes, then it works.
I don't know why using different slashes would make a difference. I wonder if that's really what made the difference. Because, the method you're using is not how VPATH is intended to be used. VPATH can only be reliably used to locate _source_ files (or in any event, files that the current make invocation treats as "leaf targets" that cannot be built). See: http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/how-not-to-use-vpath/ _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
