Xref: utzoo comp.unix.questions:7773 comp.sys.att:3614 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!ncar!boulder!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!vsi!friedl From: friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.att Subject: has anybody put $VPATH into mk? Message-ID: <732@vsi.UUCP> Date: 26 Jun 88 04:08:06 GMT Distribution: comp Organization: V-Systems, Inc. -- Santa Ana, CA Lines: 29 Hi folks, We recently got mk from the Toolchest (Hi Andrew!) and before I go hacking it up too much I want to check with others. Has anybody added $VPATH to mk? Make has this very helpful undocumented feature and I want it here. For those unfamiliar with $VPATH, it is a make variable that provides a colon-separated list of paths to search when looking for dependencies. With VPATH set to VPATH=/usr/project/include:$INFORMIXDIR/incl ; export VPATH you can convert: foo.o : foo.h ../include/defs.h ${INFORMIXDIR}/incl/dbtypes.h into foo.o : foo.h defs.h dbtypes.h We like to stick these assignments in the project's .profile; it really helps keep Makefiles from getting too cluttered. Has anybody done this to mk yet? Will you share it? Thanks in advance, Steve -- Steve Friedl V-Systems, Inc. (714) 545-6442 3B2-kind-of-guy friedl@vsi.com {backbones}!vsi.com!friedl attmail!vsi!friedl Nancy Reagan on the Free Software Foundation : "Just say GNU"