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Re: Reading makefile 'xxx' -> problem
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Paul D. Smith |
Subject: |
Re: Reading makefile 'xxx' -> problem |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:16:04 -0400 |
%% "Guillaume Dupuis" <address@hidden> writes:
gd> I am having a hard time to understand why gmake would search a
gd> Makeconf in '../../nucleus' when he has a Makefile in '.'. I can
gd> see this when using the '-d' debug switch in
gd> gmake. ../../nucleus/Makeconf (which is a totally different
gd> project) must absolutely not be used because it will conflict with
gd> the building of targets in the local project.
You mean, you ran "include Makeconf" and it found the wrong one?
gd> Is there a way to:
gd> 1- know why it would search in a totally innapropriate directory for a
gd> Makeconf
gd> 2- exclude this path (../../nucleus) from the Makefile search path
GNU make's algorithm for include processing is very trivial:
a) First it looks at the current work directory where the GNU make
program is running (_not_ where the current makefile lives, if those
happen to be different).
b) If it's not found from step (a), it checks each of the directories
specified with -I on the GNU make invocation line in order. These
could be set through the environment as well.
That's all there is to it.
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