Re: builddir vs. srcdir

[Paul Pogonyshev]

Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "Paul" == Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  Paul> Stepan Kasal wrote:
>  >> Hello,
>  >>
>  >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
>  >> > because the generated sources are placed into the build directory,
>  >> > while `make' looks for them in the source directory.
>  >>
>  >> generally, make should look for them in both places.
>
>  Paul> Yes, and it does look in both places, but the dependencies make
> `foo.o' Paul> depend on `$(srcdir)/foo.c',
>
> This could happen if this location was the right one in the
> past, and building foo.c in the build directory is a recent
> change.  In that case the dependency file still have the old
> info.
>
> The way to erase dependency info is distclean:
>
>   make -k distclean; ./configure; make

Yup, you are right, thanks.  Should have guessed myself...  >:[

Paul