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Re: VPATH question
From: |
Steve Calfee |
Subject: |
Re: VPATH question |
Date: |
Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:34:18 +0000 |
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Ishan <ishan.desilva@gmail.com> wrote in news:d95b229b-1265-4688-8e0e-
779072ad7b99@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com:
> Hi,
>
> I have two simple projects in the directory structure given below.
>
> +-home/
> |
> +-parent/
> | |
> | +-comp01/
> | | |
> | | +-Test01.h
> | | |
> | | +-Test01.cpp
> | | |
> | | +-main.cpp
> | | |
> | | +-Makefile
> |
> +-child/
> |
> +-comp01/
> |
> +-Makefile
>
>
> 'child' project needs to build itself using the source from the
> 'parent' project. This is the Makefile of the 'child' project.
>
>
> CC = g++
>
> vpath %.cpp .:../../parent/comp01
>
That is not the syntax for vpath. Look in the make manual. A very good
source is http://make.paulandlesley.org/
For awhile that site was off line, but it looks like it is healthy
again.