From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Ruiter de M)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: How do I do this with make?
Date: 21 Jan 1998 13:44:06 GMT
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <6a4u36$1o2$1@star.cs.vu.nl>
References: <69nuae$492$1 AT star DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl> <vLi4GHA9+Ow0EwMI AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: sloep109.cs.vu.nl
Lines: 34
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Precedence: bulk

Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
> Ruiter de M writes:
> >What I hope to do is to use ONE dependancy in ONE makefile in ONE run 
> >of `make' to handle this, because the names of the dirs can change and 
> >I want them in a variable. I have tried all sorts of things but it was 
> >not possible.

> I am no make expert

I was no expert either, but after digging in the info file for a while
I start to believe I'm expert enough to say it's not possible at all.

> but I think the VPATH directive will be able to do what you want.

I already tried that, see below.

> [snip]
> Of course this isn't any good if you have different files with the
> same names in various directories,

Ha, that's exactly the problem with this solution. I *do* have
different files with the same names in various directories.

> but I find it extremely handy since it lets me organise the code in
> a sensible directory structure without having to list any paths in
> the makefile.

True, but no solution to this specific problem. 2 bad.

-- 
Groeten, Michel.        http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter
 \----/==\----/
  \  /    \  /          "You know, Beavis, you need things that suck,
   \/      \/           to have things that are cool", Butt-Head.