Question

[Kowalski, Dennis M]

Hi

I am using GNU make 3.79.1 on a Sun Solaris box.

I have encountered the following situation.

I have a dot h file that has includes in it.

i.e.

  a.h
   #include b.h

I have a new b.h in the NODE1 include directory

The a.h and older b.h are in the NODE2 include directory

NODE1/include
b.h

NODE2/include
a.h
b.h

I use the following -I parameters

  -INODE1/include  -INODE2/include

The make uses the b.h that is in the NODE2/include directory with the a.h

If I copy a.h to the NODE1/include directory, the make uses the
NODE2/include/b.h

So, it looks like embedded includes do not use the -I directives if the
target .h is in the same directory as the parent.

Is this the normal operation or is it a bug that may be fixed in a newer
version?

Thanks

Dennis Kowalski
Consulting Analyst
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