Re: directory search fails!

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 22:48:22 -0700
> From: Philip Guenther <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Why should the vpath for one target (preq1) apply to a different
> target (di2/preq2)?

Because of the excerpt from the manual which started the thread which
led to this one?  See

   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2010-09/msg00086.html

where this verbiage (from "Search Algorithm") was quoted:

    a. If the target does not need to be rebuilt, the path to the file
       found during directory search is used for any prerequisite
       lists which contain this target.  In short, if make doesn’t
       need to rebuild the target then you use the path found via
       directory search.

This seems to fit the use case, because the prerequisite list of all5
includes preq1, which was found through vpath.