[Coco] OT: Unix/Linux Makefile question

John W. Linville linville at tuxdriver.com
Thu Feb 3 09:49:24 EST 2005


On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 10:49:14PM -0500, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

> I read thru one of my Linux book's chapter on Make, and it lists lot of  
> goodies, but nothing to control object dirs.  From that I take it there's  no such 
> provision.

Mike,

You may want to investigate VPATH.  I think it does the opposite of
what you want, but it may be workable for your purpose.  It still
drops objects in the local dir, but pulls the sources from elsewhere.

John
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