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From: hearth@Unify.Com (Donald S. Hearth)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Maintaining archives with makefiles
Message-ID: <08bvvsr@Unify.Com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 23:33:08 GMT
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Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, CA, USA
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    I need some help. I am trying to create a makefile that will maintain
    an archive. Here is what I have so far:

LIB=foo.a

OBJECTS= \
                $(LIB)(foo1.o) \
                $(LIB)(foo2.o) \
                $(LIB)(foo3.o)

$(LIB): $(OBJECTS)
        $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(?:.o=.c)
        ar crv ../../lib/$(LIB) `lorder *.o | tsort`
        $(RANLIB) $(LIB)
        rm -f *.o

.c.a :;

    The problem with this makefile is that if foo2.c has a compiler error,
    after I fix the problem and rerun make, all three source files get 
    remade. Now, for 3 source files, it is no big deal, but if there are
    100 or more source files, it can be a BIG pain. Can somebody suggest
    a solution to this problem?

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*  Donald S. Hearth        *   address: hearth@unify.com                  *
*  UNIFY Corporation       *                                              *
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