Re: VPATH/vpath: does it work for -l<libname> prereqs?

[John Graham-Cumming]

Maxim Nikulin wrote:
> I have got several problems with -l prerequisites too. In the beginning
> I thought it's a greet feature, but than I almost threw it away. I'll be
> glad to hear that I missed something. The possibility to choose static
> or dynamic libraries is rather attractive.

I think the problem you are encountering is primarily that he -llib 
feature was designed for use with the linker linking against prebuilt 
libraries and not necessarily for libraries that you are building in the 
Makefile.

Specifically this happens in your case 1 (in the current directory) 
which you can get around by using $(CURDIR):

    bar: -lfoo ; touch $@
    $(CURDIR)/libfoo.so: ; touch $@
    vpath lib%.so $(CURDIR)

John.
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