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From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject: Re: Does VPATH work in make?
2 Mar 1998 20:45:38 -0800 :
Message-ID: <199803021817.KAB00990.cygnus.gnu-win32@f155.hotmail.com>
To: terryc AT tenberry DOT com
Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

Exactly, how is the VPATH set?  Try setting it without spaces around the 
=.

There is a difference between b18 and b19 make.exe. b19 now includes an 
environment variable that you can set which changes the way it handles 
directory paths, see the README file at the ftp site.

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>Date: Sat, 28 Feb 1998 16:37:15 -0500
>To: GNU-Win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>From: Terry Colligan <terryc AT tenberry DOT com>
>Subject: Does VPATH work in make?
>
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I'm trying to switch a *very* large DOS-based project to using
>  the GNU tools.  I have gotten most things to work with Delorie's
>  version, including the make files.  In order to keep the
>  old directory structure, I made use of the VPATH variable to
>  search multiple directories for source files.
>
>  I tried the makefile (which works under Delorie) under Beta 18 and
>  Beta 19 (today).  In both of the GNU-Win32 cases, make acts as
>  though VPATH was a no-op.  The setting is clearly there when I
>  dump the state with a 'make -p', but it has no effect.  No matter
>  what I put into VPATH, make only finds files in the current
>  directory.
>
>  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?
>
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