Re: cannot use stem more than once in dependency

[Jan Beulich]

So are there plans to address this then? If yes, as said before, I'd
intend to make a similar change locally for immediate use. If not I'd
know that I'll have to manually expand the affected lines. Thanks again,
Jan

i.A. Jan Beulich
Software Engineer Senior
Novell Linux Platform Engineering

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>>> "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> 14.05.03 15:38:02 >>>
%% "Jan Beulich" <address@hidden> writes:

  jb> while I found that someone already asked that question in the
help
  jb> mailing list (on March 1st 2002) the fact that he didn't even get
an
  jb> answer points at this being a problem non-one wanted to think
about,
  jb> yet.

It's not that no one wanted to think about it, it's that the change is
not backward compatible so it requires careful consideration.

  jb> %.dst : VPATH+=root/%/subdir

This is completely unsupported: a pattern-specific variable is _NOT_ a
pattern rule; you cannot substitute stems into the variable.

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