RE: Existing file does not exist?!?

[Dave Korn]

On 02 January 2007 20:16, Hiebert, Darren (MS) wrote:

> I am debugging a complicated makefile (i.e. make -d) using make-3.81 to
> follow its decisions. 
> 
> One strange thing is that it is reporting one particular file this way:
> 
> Considering target file `myfile'.
>   File `myfile' does not exist.
> 
> However, I know this file exists. Furthermore, even after invoking the rule
> that would create the file, make still reports that it does not exist. 
> 
> Under what circumstances can a file be reported by make as not existing
> when it does exist? 

  When it doesn't exist in the directory(ies) that make is searching in for
it.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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