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Date:      Sat, 8 Jun 2002 19:05:27 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Improving GNU make compatibility in BSD make (+ patch)
Message-ID:  <20020608190527.B40584@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020601044603.GD91922@dan.emsphone.com>; from dnelson@allantgroup.com on Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:46:03PM -0500
References:  <20020601015343.GA1132@lizzy.catnook.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205311855390.29361-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020601025457.GA1457@lizzy.catnook.com> <20020601044603.GD91922@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:46:03PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> Automake avoids the issue entirely by simply listing the dependencies
> itself, so
> 
> > envuidgid: envuidgid.o
> > 	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^
> 
> becomes
> 
> > 	$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ envuidgid.o

This is not always possible.  If you have a VPATH, then you need make(1)
to expand $^ to the full path it used to find the dependancy.

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