Re: -W does not work with vpath

[Maciej Walezak]

Hello,

I was wondering why nobody answered my question. Is it something wrong with the 
description? Hmm...
I really need this issue to be clarified.


On Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:59:02 +0200
Maciej Walezak wrote:

MW> 
MW> Hello there,
MW> 
MW> My makefile looks like this:
MW> 
MW> vpath %.c src
MW> file.o: file.c
MW>     cp $< $@
MW> 
MW> The file "file.c" is in "src" directory. Now consider the following 
sequence of commands:
MW> 
MW> $ make
MW> cp src/file.c file.o
MW> $ make -W src/file.c 
MW> make: `file.o' is up to date.
MW> 
MW> It looks like -W does not work for files found via vpath directive. Is it a 
bug or a feature?
MW> 
MW> greetings
MW> --
MW> Maciej Walezak
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MW> 
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