RE: Question Regarding Emile van Bergen's Non-Recursive Make

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 17:51 -0700, Davidson, Josh wrote:
> Is it valid to treat VPATH like a simply expanded variable?  I changed
> my makefiles to add to it like:
> 
> VPATH := $(VPATH) SRCIDR_$(d) TESTDIR_$(d)

Yes, this is perfectly legitimate.  VPATH is just a variable like any
other variable.  The only difference is how/where make uses its value.

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