VPATH

From MDC

VPATH is a standard variable that tells make where to look for files. See the GNU Make documentation on VPATH for more details.

[edit] Set By

Tree makefiles set VPATH in the standard makefile header before including autoconf.mk.

[edit] Example

In the Mozilla build system, VPATH is always set to @srcdir@, which is an autoconf variable which points to the directory to find source files.

VPATH = @srcdir@