Patch for bfd/Makefile* botch

Michael Sokolov msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG
Tue Apr 11 17:38:00 GMT 2000


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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