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Re: Patch for bfd/Makefile* botch
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- Subject: Re: Patch for bfd/Makefile* botch
- From: msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG (Michael Sokolov)
- Date: Tue, 11 Apr 00 19:37:39 CDT
Ian Lance Taylor <ian@zembu.com> wrote:
> I don't know why make would fail. Why isn't the file there? It's
> true that the dependency is bogus and a wart, but I don't understand
> why it would cause an actual problem beyond an occasional unnecessary
> recompilation.
I'm building in a separate-from-source directory on 4.3BSD. The ability to
build in a separate directory is based on make's VPATH feature. 4.3BSD doesn't
like VPATH (I assume because it comes from SysV) and provides only a limited
support for it. Experiment shows that depending on file.c sees VPATH but
depending on subdir/file.h doesn't.
Anyway, thanks to Alan the problem is fixed now.
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