Jed Jia wrote: > Take a look at the following Makefile: > > > x: obj/./t > > touch x > > > > obj/t: a > > touch obj/t > > but make outputs: > > make: *** No rule to make target `obj/./t', needed by `x'. Stop.
While I'm not able to answer your final question, this function may help (taken from https://github.com/dmoulding/boilermake): > # CANONICAL_PATH - Given one or more paths, converts the paths to the > canonical > # form. The canonical form is the path, relative to the project's top-level > # directory (the directory from which "make" is run), and without > # any "./" or "../" sequences. For paths that are not located below the > # top-level directory, the canonical form is the absolute path (i.e. from > # the root of the filesystem) also without "./" or "../" sequences. > define CANONICAL_PATH > $(patsubst ${CURDIR}/%,%,$(abspath ${1})) > endef With this function, you could then write: > define CANONICAL_PATH > $(patsubst ${CURDIR}/%,%,$(abspath ${1})) > endef > x: $(call CANONICAL_PATH,obj/./t) > touch x > > $(call CANONICAL_PATH,obj/t): > touch $(call CANONICAL_PATH,obj/t) This make your makefile independent from how a path is specified. Cheers, Christof _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
