Anyway, thanks for your kind help. Maybe I will dig into the source of make if I have time ... :)
2010/12/8 Warlich, Christof <christof.warl...@siemens.com>: > Jed Jia wrote: >> It works well, but seems a little inconvenient. Do I have to use >> CANONICAL_PATH on every file path? > Yeah, it doesn't make the makefile more readable. You must use it whenever > there is a risk that the path is not in its canonical form. > >> And I wonder whether this is a future of make or just a bug? > Well, I would consider it as a nice-to have but missing feature of make. > Maybe someone with more background knowledge than mine could comment on why > make does not just do the path normalization. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
