Re: directory search fails!

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 11:52 -0800, ali hagigat wrote:
> b. If the target does need to be rebuilt (is out-of-date), the
> pathname found during
> directory search is thrown away, and the target is rebuilt using the file name
> specified in the makefile. In short, if make must rebuild, then the
> target is rebuilt
> locally, not in the directory found via directory search.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> If a target is found by directory search and needs to be rebuilt and
> updated, that target seems to be updated at the same directory found
> by directory search algorithm.

No.  That is exactly the opposite of what the manual says in the section
you quote above (and make's implementation agrees with the manual).