configure & make strangeness (Re: Missing file from kdelibs/dcop)

[Oswald Buddenhagen]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:08:54PM +0300, Nick Katsamas wrote:
> dcopclient.cpp:1841: dcopclient.moc: No such file or directory
> make[3]: *** [libDCOP_la.all_cpp.lo] Error 1
> make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kdelibs-3.0/dcop'
> 
> If I do "cd dcop ; make dcopclient.moc " then it's ok.
> 
the usual answer here is "make cvs-clean and redo the whole shit".
still, i'm wondering, what the reason is. in my case,, the the *dir
assignments in the Makefile contained absolute path specifications 
instead of relative ones.
a) why does make ignore dependencies with absolute paths?
b) why does configure create absolute paths sometimes?

greetings

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