[5336] in Athena Bugs
vax 7.0 make: bug in dependencies with `-' or `.' in names?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Thu Jun 28 02:19:29 1990
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 90 02:19:11 -0400
From: Ken Raeburn <Raeburn@MIT.Edu>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The makefile for a version of gcc I just picked up has a dependency:
srcdir = /mit/gnu/dev/src/gcc-1.37.9
hard-params.o: $(srcdir)/hard-params.c
Although gcc-1.37.9/hard-params.c does exist, make complains that it
doesn't know how to make it. If I make a link to "gcc-1.37.9" in the
same directory, called "gcc", it finds it, and "make -n" prints out
the pathname with "-1.37.9" in it.
I reported something like this a while back for dependencies using
VPATH, but now the problem seems a little more clearly localized.
