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Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: gmake/make dependency problem 
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Harlan,

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, Harlan Stenn wrote:

HS>It is ugly to add $(srcdir) to the targets (and perhaps dependencies),
HS>but that may have to happen.

For the 'foreseeable future' - yes.

HS>If I say:
HS>
HS>srcdir=wherever
HS>VPATH: $(srcdir)
HS>
HS>a: b
HS>
HS>b: c
HS>  cd $(srcdir) && script c > b
HS>
HS>then it is Strange that make will correctly see that for 'a', the
HS>dependency is 'b' and 'b' is found in $(srcdir)/b, yet for the 2nd
HS>rule, 'b' is expected to be in the current directory.

Are you sure that make sees a? Try make -dm and you'll see that it doesn't 
see a, nor b for the seconds rule.

harti