Re: [Mingw-msys] RE: Differences between mingw-make and msys' make

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Earnie Boyd <address@hidden> writes:

  eb> No, Soren had made mention of portable Makefile for use by some
  eb> other make besides gmake.  VPATH isn't portable for this
  eb> situation.

True, but just having the variable VPATH set in your makefile doesn't
_hurt_ anything.  It's just another unused variable.  This is why we
recommend using VPATH wherever possible: using the vpath syntax is GNU
make specific and a syntax error in other versions of make.

You just can't get the benefit of compiling in other directories if you
don't use GNU make (or at least a make that has "sane" VPATH
characteristics), but compiling in the same directory still works.

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