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make-3.54 documentation bugs/quirks (vpath)

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From: Marty
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1989 15:57
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I'm using GNUmake 3.54 on sun386i and sun/4.

In section 5.3.2 The vpath Directive, the example is
vpath *.h ../headers

Looks like the '*' should be a '%' (I found this confusing).

Also vpath and VPATH appear inconsistent in VPATH uses an '=' and vpath doesn't
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