Re: A question about Makefile

[Jed Jia]

Anyway, thanks for your kind help. Maybe I will dig into the source of
make if I have time ... :)

2010/12/8 Warlich, Christof <address@hidden>:
> Jed Jia wrote:
>>      It works well, but seems a little inconvenient. Do I have to use
>> CANONICAL_PATH on every file path?
> Yeah, it doesn't make the makefile more readable. You must use it whenever 
> there is a risk that the path is not in its canonical form.
>
>>      And I wonder whether this is a future of make or just a bug?
> Well, I would consider it as a nice-to have but missing feature of make. 
> Maybe someone with more background knowledge than mine could comment on why 
> make does not just do the path normalization.