Dear Kaz, Many thanks for your response, which makes perfect sense to me.
To give a bit of context I asked the question mainly about the inclusion of .depend files for a project that can at the moment not be built out of source tree and for which I was experimenting with VPATH. I think for .depend files I should just hardcode their paths in the makefiles so that they can be found in the source tree. Thanks again for the enlightening response! Sébastien. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make