Re: help: makefile: directory rules

[Greg Chicares]

On 2006-3-17 2:41 UTC, paulur wrote:
> There are two directories /src1 and /src2 where the soruce codes are, and
> another directory /headers for head files.
> 
> How should the makefile set variables ( not to hard code all the
> directories) so that the complier can find these files?

Let's say those are all subdirectories of /somepath/ and
assume you're using C. If you write

vpath %.c /somepath/src1 /somepath/src2
vpath %.h /somepath/headers

then you can run 'make' in a completely different directory
and it will find those files.