Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all,

I need to check the contents of my vpath directive in my file. Is it possible to check the contents of the vpath directive as we do for a variable like @echo '$vpath' .

Please let me know the above is correct or suggest me the correct one.

Thanks in advance.

-Jerry

let me put the question in an approchable way..

In my make file I have a prerequisite which is a library and the I have the library in /jerry/lib and I have included the path in the vpath directive as

vpath %.so /jerry/lib

but still I get an error stating that the directory cant be found during the build.

Hope this help and get more help from you guys..

-Jerry

The reason I was trying to print vpath is to find whether the libraries I have given in the pre-requisities list is added to the vpath for the searching.

The missing library problem is solved when I gave the library with the whole name instead of giving as -l<name>. This is a workaround and not the actual solution I still was not able to figure out why it didnt worked with -l<name>.

Thank you
-Jerry

I have no idea what you're talking about. In my universe, VPATH is a macro and you can do stuff like:

Code:

VPATH=/this:/that:/the/other/thing
default:
        @echo in makefile VPATH = $(VPATH)

Used to be that make did not have "directives". The HP-UX man page mentions a .MUTEX directive while the Solaris man page mentions an include directive. I never heard of a vpath directive and I have no idea how to get it working. This is why you are not getting responses to your question. I guess nobody else heard of it either.

The vpath (lower case) is a directive different from VPATH(uppercase) variable. vpath is more selective than VPATH. In VPATH you will give the path where the make should search for the libraries etc.

With vpath you can specify, for a specific pattern of pre-requisities needs to be searched in a specific path.

How to use -

vpath pattern directories
Specify the search path directories for file names that match pattern.

The search path, directories, is a list of directories to be searched, separated by colons (semi-colons on MS-DOS and MS-Windows) or blanks, just like the search path used in the VPATH variable.

Eg.

vpath %.h ../headers

tells make to look for any prerequisite whose name ends in .h in the directory ../headers if the file is not found in the current directory.

-Jerry

How to print the "vpath" directive to see the list of results created during pattern search?

I see that in my code vpath is not able to get the directory path properly and hence all the files that I look for are reported as "not found"

Is there any bug reported on the "vpath" ??

Thanks
Sriram