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From: mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  Library Makefiles for X, Motif
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Date: 10 Aug 90 00:48:39 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?

> [explanation, giving examples of the libname.a(filename.o) syntax]

I don't know why; all I can do is speculate.

One possible reason is that some implementations of this syntax are
broken.  It was long ago, and I do not recall more details than what I
can give here, but there was at least one version of make whose
handling of that syntax simply didn't work right.  I can't recall
*what* didn't work; it was more work than it was worth to try to figure
it all out.

					der Mouse

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