Re: Matching subdirectories in patterns?

[Roy Stogner]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, CHEN Cheng wrote:

> I'm sorry that a mistake needs to be corrected.

No, thank you; the mistake was mine:

> As the manual (section 10.8) says, if there is a slash in the pattern,
> then the full path name will be matched. So the solution shall be:
>
> all: figs/experiment1/results.pdf figs/experiment2/results.pdf
>
> figs/%.pdf : rawfigs/%.eps
>  mkdir -p $(dir $@)
>  epstopdf -o=$@ $<

I was quite confused, because this appears to be nearly identical to
my first (non-working) solution.  But after setting up some similar
cases for testing, it turned out that make was indeed matching full
path names correctly in the pattern; the real bug in my Makefile was
that the same user who first tried to use a non-flat rawfigs/
directory also tried to use a vector graphics format for which I
didn't have a pattern set up.  Fixing that, everything works!

Thanks again for the help,
---
Roy