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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question about basic library usage / makefiles
Summary: trade space for time
Keywords: ar ranlib library makefile
Message-ID: <10526@alice.UUCP>
Date: 26 Feb 90 05:16:50 GMT
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a technique i have seen used (although i find it repugnant myself)
keeps a copy of all the .o's around and uses an ar q to quickly
rebuild the library from scratch. of course, this doesn't
help with ranlib but there is no way in general to evade that;
the work of figuring out where the symbols are has to be done by someone.