Re: directory search fails!

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Philip Guenther <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>  address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 07:37:34 -0400
> 
> >     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.
> 
> No.  It says the path is used "for" (that is, in place of) that target
> in any prerequisite lists that contain it.  This does NOT say that the
> path to the file is used "_TO SEARCH_ for" any other prerequisite in
> lists which contain that target.

Another place to make the wording less equivocal, then.  This one
actually tripped me as well.

> Make is behaving correctly in the example Ali provided.

I had no doubt it did, I just couldn't reconcile that with the docs ;-)

Thanks.