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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Makefiles for library maintenance
Summary: another space/time tradeoff
Keywords: make
Message-ID: <8571@alice.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 06:39:06 GMT
References: <1108@ncar.ucar.edu> <894@philmds.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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another hack for maintaining libraries if you have to use something
broken like make (try make -t 'lib.a(c.o)') that i learnt from bruce ellis:

always keep all your .o's around (that's the space tradeoff) and after you make
any new ones, do a
	rm lib.a; ar q lib.a $(OBJ); optional ranlib lib.a
this form of ar runs real quick as it just adds to end.