Re: Trying to get rid of one redundand rule

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Regarding Trying to get rid of one redundand rule; you wrote:

  n> My problem: even though I list both $(SRCDIR) and $(BLDDIR) in the VPATH, 
  n>            I still have to list a separate rule to compile those 2 files:

  n> $(BLDDIR)/%.o: %.cpp
  n>    $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -D __LINUX__ -I $(INCDIR) -I $(BLDDIR) -c $< -o $@

  n> %.o: %.cpp
  n>    $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -D __LINUX__ -I $(INCDIR) -I $(BLDDIR) -c $< -o $@

VPATH is ONLY for finding _SOURCE_ files, never for finding target
files.

See the papers on VPATH on my web site below.

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