GNU make and VPATH problems

[Jonathan Hudgins]

Pete Flugstad <peteflugstad <at> mchsi.com> writes:

> 
> Greetings,
> 
>      I just recently started having a problem with GNU make.  I believe
> it's related to VPATH, but I'm not sure.  The weird part is that I think 
> it just recently started happening after I ran the cygwin update (which 
> did not update GNU make).  
> The crypto lib has a lot of files 
> (370+), spread out over probably 30+ sub-dirs.  I setup the directory 
> structure to have a GNUmakefile at the top level, with a src/ directory 
> with all the crypto sources in it and an obj/ directory where I want all 
> the .o's built.  I setup the makefile to use all relative paths using 
> '/' as a seperator.  I setup a VPATH to refer to all the source dirs, 
> again, just simple unix style paths, no spaces, or weird DOS characters. 

I have had a similar problem on my project.  It seems to work on some 
machines at my company and not others.  At this point I think it might have
something to do with which OS (ie XP vs 2k, with it not working on XP).  I
will try running a debug build as well.

I am really curious if this has been logged as a bug against gnu make.

Jonathan


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