Makefile woes
Ed McGuire
emcguire at ccad.uiowa.edu
Sat Jun 1 00:49:48 AEST 1991
In article <DOWDING.91May29155056 at palm.ai.sri.com> dowding at ai.sri.com (John Dowding) writes:
>Now, when they do a make to test their changes, I want the Makefile
>to prefer a local copy over the copy in the default directory,
>otherwise to use the default file if no local copy exists.
>
>I am running Sun Unix 4.1.1.
Some versions of make(1) support the VPATH macro. VPATH specifies
a list of directories which make(1) should search for dependency
files, if the dependency is not located in the current working
directory.
SunOS 4.0 does not have VPATH. I can't say whether 4.1 does. But
GNU Make has VPATH. You might consider installing that as your
default make.
--
peace. -- Ed
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