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From: zap@front.se (Svante Lindahl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: uhhh, use Make as The Creator intended (was Re: help with make needed)
Message-ID: <496@front.se>
Date: 2 May 89 11:29:37 GMT
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In article <4351@omepd.UUCP>, merlyn@intelob.intel.com (Randal L. Schwartz @ Stonehenge) writes:
> Whoa, whoa, whoa.  Why not just:

> $(TARGET):: Makefile
> 	-rm -f $@
> 
> $(TARGET):: fred.o barney.o wilma.o betty.o
> 	ar r $@ $?

Yes! A pair of double colon rules works nicely for this situation.
Although I think the second rule should be:

$(TARGET)::	$(OBJECTS)
		ranlib $@

as suggested by Root Boy Jim in another posting, and Leo de Wit in a
posting that didn't make it out, but which was mailed to me.

Thank you, everybody!

Svante