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Re: builddir vs. srcdir
Alexandre Duret-Lutz wrote:
> >>> "Paul" == Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev@gmx.net> writes:
>
> Paul> Stepan Kasal wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:56:56PM +0200, Paul Pogonyshev wrote:
> >> > because the generated sources are placed into the build directory,
> >> > while `make' looks for them in the source directory.
> >>
> >> generally, make should look for them in both places.
>
> Paul> Yes, and it does look in both places, but the dependencies make
> `foo.o' Paul> depend on `$(srcdir)/foo.c',
>
> This could happen if this location was the right one in the
> past, and building foo.c in the build directory is a recent
> change. In that case the dependency file still have the old
> info.
>
> The way to erase dependency info is distclean:
>
> make -k distclean; ./configure; make
Yup, you are right, thanks. Should have guessed myself... >:[
Paul