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tpradeep@cs.tamu.edu (Pradeep K Tapadiya) writes:

>Given, say, 30 dependent files, my makefile compiles the source files as
>   cl -c a.c
>   cl -c b.c
>   cl -c c.c
>   and so on for all those source files which are out of date.
>Obviously, for each such source file there is an overhead of
>loading and releasing the compiler. A better construct would be
>  cl -c a.c b.c c.c ...
>wherein the compiler is loaded and released just once.

The Borland make has a construct {} that does this.
.c.obj:
   tcc -c {$< }
gives the desired behavior (builds a long command line to execute
multiple compiles with each load of the compiler, splitting them up if
the line would be too long).

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