From 9603279fb8795074596b45b28708a8077ef6befb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 17:35:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Formerly vpath.c.~2~

---
 vpath.c | 7 +------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/vpath.c b/vpath.c
index edd0be3e..40d92e39 100644
--- a/vpath.c
+++ b/vpath.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 This file is part of GNU Make.
 
 GNU Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
@@ -345,11 +345,6 @@ selective_vpath_search (path, file)
 	     Now NAME is the name of the directory to look in.  */
 	  *n = '\0';
 
-	  /* Make sure the directory exists and we know its contents.  */
-	  if (name_dplen > 0 && !dir_file_exists_p (name, ""))
-	    /* It doesn't exist.  */
-	    continue;
-
 	  /* We know the directory is in the hash table now because either
 	     construct_vpath_list or the code just above put it there.
 	     Does the file we seek exist in it?  */