has anybody put $VPATH into mk?

[Stephen J. Friedl]

Hi folks,

     We recently got mk from the Toolchest (Hi Andrew!) and
before I go hacking it up too much I want to check with others.
Has anybody added $VPATH to mk?  Make has this very helpful
undocumented feature and I want it here.

     For those unfamiliar with $VPATH, it is a make variable that
provides a colon-separated list of paths to search when looking
for dependencies.  With VPATH set to

        VPATH=/usr/project/include:$INFORMIXDIR/incl ; export VPATH

you can convert:

        foo.o   : foo.h ../include/defs.h ${INFORMIXDIR}/incl/dbtypes.h
into
        foo.o   : foo.h defs.h dbtypes.h

     We like to stick these assignments in the project's .profile;
it really helps keep Makefiles from getting too cluttered.  Has
anybody done this to mk yet?  Will you share it?

     Thanks in advance,
     Steve

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