[14520] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.0I: X11 configuration files ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 7 20:12:59 1996
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 20:12:56 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: jawetzel@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14517] in Athena Bugs"
> .c.o:
> $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $*.c
> By specifying HasGcc, the suffix .c.o has been redefined. This
> redefinition overrides gnu make suffix definition and therefore gnu
> make ignores the VPATH variable when searching for source files. I
> contend that redefining the .c.o suffix definition is unnecessary.
> This does raise the question as to whose problem this is - the
> XConsortium or GNU.
Either way, a simple fix is to make the rule use $< instead of $*.c.
I'll do that at some point.
