From:	geoffr2 AT aol DOT com (Geoff Robinson)
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Subject:	Re: How Can Makefiles Handle Source File in Extraneous Directories?
Date:	14 Aug 2003 09:47:28 -0700
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I can't get this thing to work.  Do you know of any Windows-based
examples I could look at?  I'm finding it exceedingly hard to find
documentation for this specific problem.

Secondly, I'm not sure if there is any way around putting in a drive
letter.  That may be a problem, but I'm willing to accept the risk.

thanks again,
Geoff


> 
> That's what the VPATH feature is for.  Note that it only works if
> filenames in different directories are all distinct, though.  I.e. you
> can't have both foo/bar.c and baz/bar.c in your project at once.
> 
> And if at all possible, do *not* use drive letters, and especially not
> backslashes as directory separators in your target lists.  It may work
> a good part of the time, thanks to Eli's and other people's efforts,
> but don't count on this to be reliable.

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