+Summary of recommended directory reference syntaxes
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+
+Path construction &-expansions, meanings summary:
+
+ Recommended In build tree In source tree
+ when Relative Absolute Relative Absolute
+
+ This directory & &@ &, &@,
+ Top level . &@. &; &@;
+
+Adding `@' means "absolute path". (`&.' is not allowed without @
+because just `&./' is a silly way of writing `.'.) `/' terminates the
+escape (needed if the next thing is not a lowercase character, or
+space). `=' means "just the value, no /". Space starts multi-word
+processing.
+
+In more detail, with the various options for what comes next:
+
+ Recommended In build tree In source tree
+ when Relative Absolute Relative Absolute
+
+ This lc &file &@file &,file &@,file
+ directory any &/file &@/file &,/file &@,/file
+ several & f g h &@ f g h &, f g h &@, f g h
+
+ Top lc &@.file &;file &@;file
+ level any file &@./file &;/file &@;/file
+ several f g h &@. f g h &; f g h &@; f g h
+ .mk.in file $(abs)/file $(src)/file $(abs_src)/file
+