Hi, I'm encountering a problem with the use of the vpath directive, and I find the behavior of make in this regard quite odd, but I may have misunderstood something.
My Makefile is as follow (GNU make 3.81): all: foo ./test/foo: bar touch $@ bar: touch $@ vpath foo ./test/ The problem is that, if i touch bar, foo does not get remade. Exploring on that, i found out that in that situation, there is two rules for foo (from the ouput of --print-date-base) $ make --print-data-base | grep foo all: ./test/foo test/foo: bar ./test/foo: vpath foo ./test So it seems for the rule I specified, make discards './', but not for the vpath directive. When I change the vpath line to 'vpath foo test/', make do what I expect, which seems to support that hypothesis. Not sure if that should be a bug or not. The trouble is that in my actual makefile, I use a combination of $(call) and $(eval) to generate the rules, and begin at the root of my source tree with './' (the default, unless I specify something else on the command line when invoking make) avoids to do some checks to avoid ending with '/some/path', which is not what I expect. Is there something I can do to solve this, other than directly using an absolute path ? Thanks in advance Max. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
