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Jeff Saremi
Jeff Saremi

Reputation: 3024

make does not resolve absolute path to target name

I have a simple target in my Makefile:

file1:
    touch $@

I can build this target using: make file1

It also builds if I say: make ./file1 ('file1' is up to date)

However if i say: make $HOME/file1 then it tells me:

make: Nothing to be done for '/home/jesaremi/file1'

Is there a way to get consistent results regardless of what path I use?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 153

Answers (1)

Beta
Beta

Reputation: 99164

You could add another rule:

$(shell pwd)/%: %
    @:

This will allow the file1 rule to work for "file1", "./file1", "/home/jesaremi/path_to_cwd/file1", "~jesaremi/path_to_cwd/file1" and "~/path_to_cwd/file1".

Upvotes: 1

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