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From: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: VPATH
Message-ID: <745@limbo.Intuitive.Com>
Date: 9 May 90 16:49:26 GMT
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Reply-To: taylor@limbo.Intuitive.Com (Dave Taylor)
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Fletcher Kittredge of BBN responds to Denny Pages' request for 
information on VPATH in HP-UX "make" with:

> VPATH is a feature of GNU make, so you will need to install GNU 
> make on your system...

This isn't quite the complete picture.  That is, check this out:

  % uname -a
  HP-UX limbo 6.5 B 9000/340 limbo

  % what /bin/make
  /bin/make:
	   $Revision: 63.1 $

  % strings /bin/make | grep VPATH
  VPATH

So you can see that the HP version of make *knows* about the variable
in some sense or other.  Curiously, however, the man page doesn't 
reference the variable at all (alas)...

What's the gig?
						-- Dave Taylor
Intuitive Systems
Mountain View, California

taylor@limbo.intuitive.com    or   {uunet!}{decwrl,apple}!limbo!taylor