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

[Martin Willers]

> 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.

Thanks a lot!

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

Done. It has Item ID #20394 "vpath directive drops entries".

-- 
 Martin