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Re: directory search fails!
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: directory search fails! |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Sep 2010 13:51:34 +0200 |
> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Philip Guenther <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
> address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:37:34 -0400
>
> > a. If the target does not need to be rebuilt, the path to the file
> > found during directory search is used for any prerequisite
> > lists which contain this target. In short, if make doesn’t
> > need to rebuild the target then you use the path found via
> > directory search.
> >
> > This seems to fit the use case, because the prerequisite list of all5
> > includes preq1, which was found through vpath.
>
> No. It says the path is used "for" (that is, in place of) that target
> in any prerequisite lists that contain it. This does NOT say that the
> path to the file is used "_TO SEARCH_ for" any other prerequisite in
> lists which contain that target.
Another place to make the wording less equivocal, then. This one
actually tripped me as well.
> Make is behaving correctly in the example Ali provided.
I had no doubt it did, I just couldn't reconcile that with the docs ;-)
Thanks.
- RE: directory search fails!, (continued)
- RE: directory search fails!, Hambridge, Philip J (ODP), 2010/09/30
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/26
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, ali hagigat, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, Paul Smith, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: directory search fails!, ali hagigat, 2010/09/22
- Re: directory search fails!, Philip Guenther, 2010/09/22
Re: directory search fails!, grischka, 2010/09/24
Re: directory search fails!, grischka, 2010/09/26
Re: directory search fails!, grischka, 2010/09/26