Makefile vpath not working for header files

Question

I am trying to use vpath in my Makefile to avoid prefixing every source file with directory name. But I can\'t get it to work properly.

Here\'s the Makefile:

Answer 1

The vpath directive only controls how Make finds dependencies; it doesn't affect in any way how GCC works. If you have headers in some other directory, you explicitly need to tell GCC with -I:

INCLUDE := include

$(CC) -I$(INCLUDE) $c $< -o $@