RE: A question about Makefile

[Warlich, Christof]

Jed Jia wrote:
>      It works well, but seems a little inconvenient. Do I have to use
> CANONICAL_PATH on every file path?
Yeah, it doesn't make the makefile more readable. You must use it whenever 
there is a risk that the path is not in its canonical form.

>      And I wonder whether this is a future of make or just a bug?
Well, I would consider it as a nice-to have but missing feature of make. Maybe 
someone with more background knowledge than mine could comment on why make does 
not just do the path normalization.