Re: Inconsistent VPATH behavior ..

2003-02-24 Thread Harsha Kalidindi
Paul: VPATH is useful only to find source files from the destination directory, it cannot be used to find destination files from the source directory. I think that's what your trying to do here: run make in the source directory and put the results in a different directory. VPATH cannot be used in

Re: Inconsistent VPATH behavior ..

2003-02-24 Thread Paul D. Smith
VPATH is useful only to find source files from the destination directory, it cannot be used to find destination files from the source directory. I think that's what your trying to do here: run make in the source directory and put the results in a different directory. VPATH cannot be used in that

Inconsistent VPATH behavior ..

2003-02-24 Thread Harsha Kalidindi
Hi: I could not get help on the help-make list. Please let me know if I should explain the issue further .. We are using GNU make 3.79.1. There is a GNUmakefile in /user/u/src that has a rule like this: install_scripts: ../install/scripts/scr.pl ../insta