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Re: Double '/' in source path breaks compilation if done from a director


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: Double '/' in source path breaks compilation if done from a directory not where the Makefile.am resides
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:56:11 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

Hello Aleksander,

* Aleksander Morgado wrote on Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:16:09AM CET:
> 
> Not sure if this is a bug in automake, in make itself, or in my code,
> but anyway I'll explain what happens.

Not flattening multiple consecutive slashes in prerequisite names for
VPATH searches is a GNU make limitation, AFAICS undocumented.
Not coping with this limitation is arguably a bug in your code.

Cheers,
Ralf




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