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1)
The first hit says : How Not to Use VPATH
http://make.mad-scientist.us/vpath.html
QUOTE : "..rather than the current directory, is by prefixing all the
targets with that directory path. In other words, VPATH is useless
to us for this purpose.
2)
http://www.math.utah.edu/docs/info/make_4.html
QUOTE.. (with line numbers from 'grep -n vpath make_4.txt'
(html2txt make_4.html))
163: directory `src'. The |vpath| Directive Similar to the |VPATH| variable
164: but more selective is the |vpath| directive (note lower case), which
169: the |vpath| directive: |vpath pattern directories| Specify the search
173: variable. |vpath pattern| Clear out the search path associated with
174: pattern. |vpath| Clear all search paths previously specified with
175: |vpath| directives. A |vpath| pattern is a string containing a `%'
181: exactly, which is not useful very often.) `%' characters in a |vpath|
188: if the pattern in a |vpath| directive matches the name of the
191: example, vpath %.h ../headers tells |make| to look for any dependency
193: not found in the current directory. If several |vpath| patterns match
194: the dependency file's name, then |make| processes each matching |vpath|
196: directive. |make| handles multiple |vpath| directives in the order in
198: pattern are independent of each other. Thus, vpath %.c foo vpath %
199: blish vpath %.c bar will look for a file ending in `.c' in `foo', then
200: `blish', then `bar', while vpath %.c foo:bar vpath % blish will look
219: specified in |VPATH| or with |vpath| also happens during consideration
237: specified by matching |vpath| search paths and the |VPATH| search path,
3)
Parallel Build Trees (a.k.a. VPATH Builds)
http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/ma...TH-Builds.html
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VPATH mechanism in make file
