Re: Equivalent to VPATH for searching for Makefiles?

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 06:20:29PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi guys,
>      I realize that using --include can do this, but is there a way to
> tell make how to do this for Makefiles as well from within other
> Makefiles (VPATH doesn't work ;P)? It would be a really cool
> enhancement to have, if it doesn't already exist, as it would make
> ginormous make projects simpler by setting a default `search path' for
> Makefiles that get included.

I have with success used:
MAKEFLAGS += --include-dir=foo

This works only for the submake you spawn from the Makefile
that contains the assignment.

        Sam