On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 01:17:58PM +0100, Johan Thelin wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Daniel Teske <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> >> - Means that source code where headers and sources are split into
>> >> different directories all of a sudden depends on relative paths to all
>> >> files
>> > See VPATH, which Ossi already mentioned in the bug report.
>>
>> yup, will do. I'm just questioning what the change brings, apart from
>> breakage. Are there any direct benefits, more than cleaning up
>> something that has been around since the dark ages.
>>
> the original bug report was the result of a rather convoluted debugging
> session on irc, with it turning out that the wrong files were picked up
> because of exactly this misfeature.

Reason enough for me :-)

/J
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