Re: False positive "doesn't match the target pattern" error

[Dmitry Goncharov]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 5:52 AM Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> wrote:
> I appreciate GNU Make normalize the path
> by removing "./"
>
> This is helpful in some cases, but I think it is a bad side-effect
> in this case.

Is there a reason to treat './foo.x' as different from 'foo.x'?


> If this is a bug, I can file for it.
> Or, any workaround exists?

It is not clear what you need to achieve.
Can you use an explicit rule like
foo.x: foo.z
?
Do you need make to perform a directory search for foo.x and foo.z in
various directories? In this case i'd look for vpath.

regards, Dmitry