On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 11:52 -0800, ali hagigat wrote: > b. If the target does need to be rebuilt (is out-of-date), the > pathname found during > directory search is thrown away, and the target is rebuilt using the file name > specified in the makefile. In short, if make must rebuild, then the > target is rebuilt > locally, not in the directory found via directory search. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > If a target is found by directory search and needs to be rebuilt and > updated, that target seems to be updated at the same directory found > by directory search algorithm.
No. That is exactly the opposite of what the manual says in the section you quote above (and make's implementation agrees with the manual). _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
