From: zander AT lysator DOT liu DOT se (Peter Zander)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: BUG: Long filenames and ypath
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 13:48:46 GMT
Organization: Nokia Group
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This is a behaviour that seems to be persistent in all versions of
DJGPP make, from ver 3.73 to 3.77.

For a makefile like:

---
ypath %.c ../src

foo: bar.c
	@echo Success!
---

making foo will succeed if bar.c is in the relative path ../src
But "longerfilename.c" in the relative path ..\src and the following
rule:
---
ypath %.c ../src

foo: longerfilename.c
	@echo Success!
---

the ..\src directory will never be searched (in the directory search,
verified with the make "-d" switch) by make, and the rule fail.
Using "-p" you can see that make has accepted the vpath rule ( 1 vpath
rule ), but the path is never searched while evaluating rules.

The same behaviour applies to VPATH.

Help?