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From: tom@eng.umd.edu (Tom Riddle)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif,comp.windows.x
Subject: Library Makefiles for X, Motif
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Date: 2 Aug 90 03:38:13 GMT
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	Is there a reason why the X and Motif library Makefiles do not take
advantage of the library target rule of make?  Currently in mit/lib/* and
motif/lib/* there are two copies of each object file (the .o file and a copy of
it in the .a file), whereas with the library target rule there would only need
to be one.  This may seem like a minor point since most people probably do a 
make clean after everthing is installed, but regardless, I think this can be 
improved.  If there is a good reason why things should remain the way they are
please let me know, otherwise, I have modified makedepend, defined new macros 
for imake, and modified the Imakefiles for Motif so that the resulting Makefiles
use the library target rule.  It would not require much effort to do the same 
thing for the X libraries and would result in a smaller demand for disk space 
during the build process.

For those unfimilar with the library target rule, it has the following syntax:

libname.a: libname.a(obj1.o) libname.a(obj2.o) ... libname.a(objn.o)
	ranlib libname.a

And the dependancies look like this:

libname.a(obj1.o): ...
libname.a(obj2.o): ...
   .
   .
   .
libname.a(objn.o): ...

	If anyone is interested I can e-mail or post a patch for makedepend,
the new macros for imake, and the modified Motif Imakefiles.


Tom Riddle
CALCE Center
University of Maryland, College Park
(301) 454-7705
email: tom@eng.umd.edu