On 06/04/2015 12:50 PM, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 6/2/15 9:10 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> That is, the use of .: in VPATH is redundant, and will NOT find any
>> files that were not already found if you had omitted it, because make
>> already searches the current directory before resorting to VPATH.
>
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On 6/2/15 9:10 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> That is, the use of .: in VPATH is redundant, and will NOT find any
> files that were not already found if you had omitted it, because make
> already searches the current directory before resorting to VPATH.
>
>
Cygwin recently upgraded to GNU make 4.1, but in the process, it
introduced a regression in behavior on how VPATH behaves [1]. In
particular, the expression
VPATH = .:/path/to/dir
is no longer treated as a two-directory designation (search ., and if
not found then search /path/to/dir) but as a o
