Re: vpath directive with multiple '%' characters in pattern

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 14 Jun 2004, Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% "Robert P. J. Day" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>   rpjd> apparently, a pattern with more than one '%' is not acceptable,
>   rpjd> but you don't find out about this until you actually try to use
>   rpjd> it in a rule.  wouldn't it make more sense to immediately flag
>   rpjd> that vpath directive as being invalid?
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean by "not acceptable"; it definitely is
> acceptable.  However, the second and subsequent % characters aren't
> treated as patterns, they're just treated as plain "%" characters.

ah, that wasn't obvious from the vpath section.  thanks.

rday