search for dependancy fails

[Cal McPherson]

Hi,

    I'm having a pisser of a problem with gnu make on redhat(7.1) linux(2.4.2-2smp).  I'm sure there's an obvious explanation for it but I just cannot get make to recognise a header in a different directory using either absolute/relative pathnames or VPATH, vpath.

 

When I run make with the following setup I get the error:

 

allocatlor.c:5:23: allocator.h: No such file or directory

make: *** [allocator.o] Error 1

 

I have the following files:

/mydir/inc/allocator.h

/mydir/src/allocator.c

/mydir/src/makefile

 

makefile looks like this:

 

 ##########################################

# my makefile

env %.h ../inc    # doesnt work with full path either

VPATH = ../inc # doesnt work with full path either

# by the way one of the above is commented out when the other is in use

 

all: allocator.o

allocator.o allocator.h  #doesnt work if i use absolute or relative path here..eg ../inc/allocator.hk

 

# end of makefile

###########################################

 

I'm using implicit rules here to be short and sweet but explicitly it doesnt work either.

I can get allocator.o to work ONLY if the #include is double quoted in allocator.c(ie #include "allocator.h" ) and the file allocator.h is in the src directory where the makefile resides.

 

Saw a link to you guys from http://www.paulandlesley.org/gmake/  so just sending a (not quite) last resort email while I try and figure out the problem.  Any ideas?

 

Thanx Cal

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