When a prerequisite is a subdirectory of VPATH
, Tru64
make creates it in the current directory.
$ mkdir -p foo/bar build $ cd build $ cat >Makefile <<END VPATH = .. all: foo/bar END $ make mkdir foo mkdir foo/bar
This can yield unexpected results if a rule uses a manual VPATH
search as presented before.
VPATH = .. all : foo/bar command `test -d foo/bar || echo ../`foo/bar
The above command is run on the empty foo/bar directory that was created in the current directory.