Re: Trying to get rid of one redundand rule

[John Graham-Cumming]

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 10:18 +0200, address@hidden wrote:
> I have most of my .cpp files in $(SRCDIR), but there are 
> also 2 files being generated by yacc/lex into $(BLDDIR).
> 
> My problem: even though I list both $(SRCDIR) and $(BLDDIR) in the VPATH, 
>            I still have to list a separate rule to compile those 2 files:
> 
> $(BLDDIR)/%.o: %.cpp
>       $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -D __LINUX__ -I $(INCDIR) -I $(BLDDIR) -c $< -o $@
> 
> %.o: %.cpp
>       $(CXX) $(CXXFLAGS) -D __LINUX__ -I $(INCDIR) -I $(BLDDIR) -c $< -o $@
> 
> If I remove the 2nd rule above, then the generated files ../build/rcompl.cpp 
> and ../build/rcomp.cpp won't compile because the implicit rule is missing 
> the "-I"s. (Please see the output at very bottom demonstrating that)
> 
> Does anybody please have an idea, how to better organize my Makefile? 
> 
> I've also tried without the VPATH ( prefixed the $(SOURCE) and $(GENSRC) 
> files with $(SRCDIR) and $(BLDDIR) but that didn't help - I still needed 
> the %.o:%.cpp rule )

Here's a simplified Makefile to work from:

        all: obj/foo.z 

        vpath %.y obj

        obj/%.z: %.y
                @echo Making $@ from $<

        obj/foo.y: src/foo.x
                @echo Making $@ from $<

It builds an intermediate file obj/foo.y from something in the src
directory (src/foo.x) and then uses a pattern rule to build obj/foo.z
from obj/foo.y.  And here's the output:

        Making obj/foo.y from src/foo.x
        Making obj/foo.z from obj/foo.y

This simulates your situation of the lex rule and it seems to work fine.
I believe the problem you are seeing is that the %.o : %.cpp rule that
is defined automatically by GNU Make is taking precedence.  Try doing
one of the following:

1. Run GNU Make with -r
2. Or add as the first line of your Makefile

        %.o : %.cpp

John.
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