Re: Problems with vpath directive in v3.81 (w/ minimal example)

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 00:43 +0200, Martin Willers wrote:

> Well, since nobody answered my posting from a few days ago, I digged a little 
> deeper into this issue and was able to create minimal example Makefiles.
> This is with make v3.81 on GNU Linux:

> And now: If I remove the line with "vpath %.h include" - it works again!
> Same if I put "vpath %.h..." BELOW "vpath %.a...".
> And it also works if I put the first entry of "vpath %.a", namely "lib", 
> +behind+ $(SUBDIRS).
> 
> What is going on here?

I installed your example on my Ubuntu Feisty (7.04) system and tried it,
and it worked fine for me.  Then I tried creating the lib directory
(empty), and THEN it failed.  Looks like a bug; I'll look at it.

You should probably file a bug report on Savannah (in the "make"
project) so we don't lose track of it.

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