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diff --git a/make.texinfo b/make.texinfo index 992d974..997fa25 100644 --- a/make.texinfo +++ b/make.texinfo @@ -1435,7 +1435,8 @@ Thus, if a files that is listed as a dependency does not exist in the current directory, @code{make} searches the directories listed in @code{VPATH} for a file with that name. If a file is found in one of them, that file becomes the dependency. Rules may then specify the -names of source files as if they all existed in the current directory. +names of source files in the dependencies as if they all existed in the +current directory. In the @code{VPATH} variable, directory names are separated by colons. The order in which directories are listed is the order followed by @@ -1482,7 +1483,7 @@ There are three forms of the @code{vpath} directive: @table @code @item vpath @var{pattern} @var{directories} Specify the search path @var{directories} for file names that match -@code{pattern}. If another path was previously specified for the same +@var{pattern}. If another path was previously specified for the same pattern, the new path is effectively appended to the old path.@refill The search path, @var{directories}, is a colon-separated list of @@ -1570,8 +1571,10 @@ foo.o : foo.c defs.h hack.h @noindent @c !!! following paragraph rewritten to avoid overfull hbox In this example, the value of @samp{$^} would be a value such as -@samp{src/foo.c ../headers/defs.h hack.h}; you would use -@samp{$(firstword $^)} to extract just @samp{src/foo.c}.@refill +@samp{src/foo.c ../headers/defs.h hack.h}; you would use +@samp{$(firstword $^)} to extract just @samp{src/foo.c}. Since you want +to do this so often, the automatic variable @code{$<} is always the +first dependency, the same as @samp{$(firstword $^)}.@refill @node Implicit/Search, Libraries/Search, Commands/Search, Directory Search @subsection Directory Search and Implicit Rules |