Re: building a recursive make structure using external sources

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

  rpjd> is there a standard way to put together a make-based build structure in
  rpjd> which the source itself is not contained within the build directory
  rpjd> structure itself, but is incorporated from external sources, *but* the
  rpjd> build is done locally.  that is, i don't just want to "make -C <over
  there> <target>".  i want to include the stuff from "over there" as if it
  rpjd> were local, and have all the intermediate results (executables, object
  rpjd> files, whatever) generated within my current directory.

This is EXACTLY what VPATH is for.

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