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Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?
From: |
David Boyce |
Subject: |
Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:46:48 -0500 |
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:44 AM, David Boyce <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Mark Galeck (CW) <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hmm, this is interesting, thank you for bringing this up David. I have two
>> comments:
>>
>> 1. This (and other) open source projects, are used in corporate
>> environments, where certain version of the project is installed, and users
>> cannot just download a new version without approval. If I use a particular
>> fixed feature of GNU make, I cannot populate it across the company without
>> everybody else downloading the latest version, which in practice makes it
>> impossible to use a fixed feature, until the IT department downloads the
>> change for everybody, which can be very delayed.
Also, you've said that this particular thing is being done for
diagnostic purposes. If so, I don't know why you couldn't make the fix
and use it only in your testing environment.
-David Boyce
- RE: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, (continued)
- RE: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/15
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/15
- RE: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/15
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/02/15
- RE: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/15
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Philip Guenther, 2010/02/15
- RE: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/16
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, David Boyce, 2010/02/16
- RE: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Mark Galeck (CW), 2010/02/17
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, David Boyce, 2010/02/17
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?,
David Boyce <=
- Re: why doesn't vpath %.c subdir// work?, Philip Guenther, 2010/02/17