Don't understand VPATH and -l prerequisites

[Barry D Benowitz]

Hi.

In a make file I specifies the VPATH where my library is, then for a 
prerequisite for I target I specify the library with -l

Ex.

VPATH =/my/library/path

target : target.o -lmylib


What happened was it found the library (libmylib.a) generated the full path 
to it (ie /my/library/path/libmylib.a) and included that.

What I hoped would happen is that it would maintain the -l so that the 
library would be searched, instead of included. How can I do this?

Thanks in advance.


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