From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg McGary To: Dave Brolley Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, cgen@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: PATCH: fix sim/i960/Makefile.in for CGEN Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 14:28:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <200011152137.OAA26771@kayak.mcgary.org> <3A130974.4A00FD65@redhat.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q4/msg00093.html Dave Brolley writes: > Yeah -- I only commented them out because I wasn't sure it wasn't > some kind of bug in my version of make. What is @true supposed to > do anyway, and why does it mess up VPATH? As I understand it... Without `@true', there are no commands, and the lines simply express dependencies, with all filenames subject to modification by VPATH. With `@true' as a command, they become rules which tell make how to produce the targets in the current directory, so VPATH no longer applies for those target files. Greg