Re: Problem with static pattern rules and full path

[Paul D. Smith]

%% address@hidden writes:

  d> But what I didn't mention is that this occurs many times throughout
  d> my entire tree. I am doing a non-recursive make system and this can
  d> occur in any directory and the use in one directory should not
  d> interfere with another directory. So basically, I would want to set
  d> the vpath for one rule and then clear it out.

No.  VPATH isn't used until long after the makefiles are all read in;
whatever value it has at the end of the parsing is the value it will
have for all targets.


You could do one of two things: use the VPATH variable as a
target-specific (or pattern-specific) variable (I think this will work).

Or, use a more restrictive pattern for vpath, so instead of:

    vpath %.c ...

you do something like:

    vpath $(prefix)/%.c ...

where the prefix variable restricts the values to match the "current"
location, whatever that is.

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