Re: Double '/' in source path breaks compilation if done from a directory not where the Makefile.am resides

[Roumen Petrov]

Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hello Aleksander,
>
> * Aleksander Morgado wrote on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:16:09AM CET:
> > Not sure if this is a bug in automake, in make itself, or in my code,
> > but anyway I'll explain what happens.
>
> Not flattening multiple consecutive slashes in prerequisite names for
> VPATH searches is a GNU make limitation, AFAICS undocumented.
> Not coping with this limitation is arguably a bug in your code.
>
> Cheers,
> Ralf

The reported issue is unexpected since:
$ echo 'int main() { return(0);}' > foo.c
$ cat Makefile
.////.////boo: foo.c
        $(CC) -o $@ $<
$ make
cc -o boo foo.c

Roumen