bugmake - Bugs: bug #54676, no way to query current vpath value

 
 

bug #54676: no way to query current vpath value

Submitter:  David Boyce <boyski>
Submitted:  Tue 18 Sep 2018 01:32:16 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  3 - Normal Item Group:  Enhancement
Status:  None Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open
Component Version:  4.3 Operating System:  None
Fixed Release:  None Triage Status:  None
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Tue 29 Mar 2022 11:46:03 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Actually I think "vpath %.c ?" might be fine. Technically incompatible but the odds of anyone having ever used a directory called "?" seem very low.

David Boyce <boyski>
Tue 18 Sep 2018 01:32:16 AM UTC, original submission:  

The vpath directive is generally preferable to VPATH but it has one limitation VPATH does not: there seems to be no way to query the current setting. We can add to it with e.g. "vpath %.c path1 path2 ..." and clear the current setting with "vpath %.c" but there's no way to find the "path1 path2" value. Since path settings are accretive and cross include file boundaries and so on it can be pretty challenging to figure out the current value in complex makefile suites.

Unfortunately I have no suggestions for the syntax. It may be necessary to drop this simply because there's no syntactical space for it. but I wanted to put it in the record anyway.

David Boyce <boyski>

 

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