Re: Automake: Compiling sources in other directories

[Dave Brolley]

Thanks everyone. Right now I'm just using the as a workaround until the 
automake problem is fixed. I'm only worried about GNU make on Cywin at 
the moment.

Dave

Lars J. Aas wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:37:38PM +0100, Akim Demaille wrote:
> : Hm, it looks like it's removed only in the top dir.  It also seems
> : you've been saved by the colon :)  But apparently, expect problems
> : with Sun?  Dunno.
> 
> If I recall correctly, IRIX make supports $VPATH in the sense that
> it will use it for dependencies, but it won't actually supply the path
> it used in $< and similar variables, so you actually need to test for
> the location of the file in the make rule...
> 
>   Lars J