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Re: Can make search Makefile in VPATH


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Can make search Makefile in VPATH
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:05:39 -0500

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 16:41 +0800, pacia pacia wrote:
> Suppose VPATH=$DIR1:$DIR2:$DIR3, we know that make will search source
> files in $DIR2 and DIR3 if they are
> not in $DIR1. My question is if make can treat Makefile in the same
> way? i.e., if Makefile is not in $DIR1, will
> make search $DIR2 and $DIR3 for Makefile?

It's not currently supported, no.

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?15224

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