Problem with implicit rule where a pre-requisite is an absolute path

[Yair Halevi \(Spock\)]

Hi

I have a makefile with an implicit tule that lookes something like this
(after variable expansion):


/export/home/jon/compile/obj/%.o: /export/home/jon/compile/interim/%.cc


And Gnu make simply ignores this rule. Looking in the database (gmake -p), I
see this rule is not even listed. If I simply remove the first '/' in the
prerequisite, then the rule appears in the database - but this isn't what I
want it to do.

Any ideas on this would be of great help.

Thanks,

Yair Halevi (Spock)