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no such group as "gnu.utils").

%% Deyoung Hong <hong@cisco.com> writes:

  dh> I want to write a general rule for SRC to OBJ where
  dh> 	SRC = a.c ../b.c sub/c.c
  dh> and
  dh> 	OBJ = obj/a.o ../obj/b.o sub/obj/c.o
  dh> i.e., the obj dir is inserted before the file.

  dh> Note that SRC contains source files in different directories.
  dh> How do I write a general make rule for it?

You can't write one rule to do all of this; you'll need to write a
separate implicit rule for each individual obj directory:

  obj/%.o : %.c
        ...

  ../obj/%.o : ../%.c
        ...

  sub/obj/%.o : sub/%.c
        ...

PS. Note your Reply-To: field is broken; it just says "@cisco.com".

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