Re: "vpath" not working the way i expected

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:

  rpjd> for the first time, i incorporated "vpath" into a makefile and it's
  rpjd> not working the way i expected it to based on the docs.

  rpjd> vpath %.o ${BLDOSD}

  rpjd> in short, the sources are in the current directory, but i want
  rpjd> to build both the corresponding object files and the kernel
  rpjd> driver in the arch-specific ${BLDOSD} directory.

That won't work; that's not how VPATH works and not what it was designed
for.

See my web site below for some information on VPATH.

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