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Move the node Relative Files before Directory Names. Show what file-name-nondirectory returns when given a directory name. Explain that abbreviate-file-name works on file names too. Explain how to combine a directory name with a relative file name with concat, and the pitfalls. Update some details.

/^VPATH *=/c\
# This works only in GNU make.  Using the patterns avoids\
# object files being found by VPATH, and thus permits building\
# when $srcdir is configured itself.\
vpath %.c $(srcdir)\
vpath %.h $(srcdir)\
\