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Re: how vpath should behave
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Paul Smith |
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Re: how vpath should behave |
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Wed, 19 May 2021 19:57:50 -0400 |
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On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 15:09 -0800, Britton Kerin wrote:
> It looks to me like when vpath evolved from VPATH a few things could
> have been better:
Neither vpath nor VPATH are there to find _TARGETS_, as I mentioned
before. They won't work for that, and they're not intended to work for
that.
They are there to find _SOURCES_ (that is, files that make does not
build itself but that already exist before make starts).
You might find this blog post illuminating:
http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/how-not-to-use-vpath/