Re: Reading makefile 'xxx' -> problem

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Guillaume Dupuis" <address@hidden> writes:

  gd> I am having a hard time to understand why gmake would search a
  gd> Makeconf in '../../nucleus' when he has a Makefile in '.'. I can
  gd> see this when using the '-d' debug switch in
  gd> gmake. ../../nucleus/Makeconf (which is a totally different
  gd> project) must absolutely not be used because it will conflict with
  gd> the building of targets in the local project.

You mean, you ran "include Makeconf" and it found the wrong one?
 
  gd> Is there a way to:
  gd> 1- know why it would search in a totally innapropriate directory for a
  gd> Makeconf
  gd> 2- exclude this path (../../nucleus) from the Makefile search path

GNU make's algorithm for include processing is very trivial:

 a) First it looks at the current work directory where the GNU make
    program is running (_not_ where the current makefile lives, if those
    happen to be different).

 b) If it's not found from step (a), it checks each of the directories
    specified with -I on the GNU make invocation line in order.  These
    could be set through the environment as well.

That's all there is to it.

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