From: terryc@tenberry.com (Terry Colligan) Subject: Re: Does VPATH work in make? 2 Mar 1998 10:14:33 -0800 Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980302065320.00ab7c30.cygnus.gnu-win32@mail.tenberry.com> References: <19980302165558.06647@murlibobo.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Fergus Henderson Cc: GNU-Win32@cygnus.com At 04:55 PM 3/2/98 +1100, Fergus Henderson wrote: >On 28-Feb-1998, Terry Colligan wrote: >> >> I've looked through the last two months postings, the FAQ, the >> release notes, etc. and see no mention of this. Am I the only >> one trying to use VPATH? > >I've used VPATH successfully with b18. Some more data: I've tried the small test VPATH cases in the O'Reilly Make book, and it appears to work. But my 30 file make still fails on the first file it is supposed to find from the VPATH directory. I haven't been able to create a small test case as yet. ------------------------------------------------------------ Terry Colligan, President mailto:terryc@tenberry.com Tenberry Software, Inc. http://www.tenberry.com Moderator of the Software-Quality email list on producing high quality software: mailto:software-quality-join@tenberry.com. Deliver zero-defect software -- our methods work reliably and can be used by most programmers in most organizations. http://www.tenberry.com/errfree.htm info@tenberry.com phone(508)653-6006 fax(508)655-2753 - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".