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Date:	Tue, 8 Oct 2002 16:36:16 -0400
To:	Robert Mecklenburg <mecklen AT cimsoft DOT com>
Cc:	bug-make AT gnu DOT org, Cygwin Users List <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject:	Re: Changing resolution of $^ in make
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From:	"Paul D. Smith" <psmith AT gnu DOT org>
Reply-To:	"Paul D. Smith" <psmith AT gnu DOT org>
Organization:	GNU's Not Unix!

%% Regarding Changing resolution of $^ in make; you wrote:

  rm> vpath %.in /c/work/tmp/src
  rm> vpath %.out /c/work/tmp/out

  rm> default: stuff/foo.out
  rm> 	# $^

  rm> %.out: %.in
  rm> 	touch /c/work/tmp/out/$@

  rm> the first time (when the prerequisite "stuff/foo.out" doesn't
  rm> exist) , $^ is resolved to "stuff/foo.out".  But the second time,
  rm> when stuff/foo.out already exists, it is resolved to
  rm> "/c/work/tmp/out/stuff/foo.out".  Is this behavior correct?

Yes.  VPATH/vpath is not appropriate for finding targets, only for
finding source files (that is, files which are not built by make but
which exist a priori).

See my web site below for a longer description of how VPATH/vpath
works.

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