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Re: Automake and Sun's make
- To: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
- Subject: Re: Automake and Sun's make
- From: Martin Frydl <martin at idoox dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 16:29:05 +0200
- CC: automake at gnu dot org
- List-Id: Discussion list for automake <automake.gnu.org>
- References: <3BCF1476.455371B1@idoox.com> <mv4u1wvbtes.fsf@nostromo.lrde.epita.fr>
Akim Demaille wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Frydl <martin@idoox.com> writes:
>
> Martin> Hello, I've encountered problem when using automake generated
> Martin> makefiles with Sun's make.
>
> Martin> When VPATH is used with Sun's make, it changes
> Martin> filenames in rules. Lets have a makefile like this:
>
> This is precisely why we don't support VPATH onm SunOS. So don't use
> it, and let Automake to without.
I'm surely missing something here, but my patch seems to work fine. What
are other problems which lead to not support VPATH on SunOS?