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Re: search path for "make -f"?


From: Boris Kolpackov
Subject: Re: search path for "make -f"?
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 21:40:09 +0000 (UTC)
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"Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

>   is there a definable search path for invoking other makefiles via
> "make -f", analogous to "-I" for the include search path?

No.


> or am i limited strictly to relative and absolute pathnames?

Yes.


You can play with MAKEFILES variable if you want to have something
like "-f with -I search", e.g.,

MAKEFLAGS=myfile; make -f /dev/null

See documentation for MAKEFILES variable in GNU make manual.

-boris





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