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In article <279@esun_server40.gdc.com>, bergquis@wimpy (Brett Bergquist) writes:
|> I have a problem that I cannot solve with SunOS make, and I am
|> wondering if its possible to solve with GNU make.
|> 
|> Heres the scenario.  I have a library that will contains may > 200
|> object modules.  This library is fairly large in disk size also.  When
|> running make to build the library, the archiving of the object module
|> gets progressively longer and longer, near the half way point, its
|> taking > 1 minute to archive.
|> 
|> What I would like to do is to change the way the library is built, by
|> compiling all of the object modules necessary, and then performing one
|> "ar" to archive all of the build object module into the library.
|> 
|> Is it possible to do this with GNU make?  As an aside, I also probably
|> will want to compile the object modules into a subdirectory, and have
|> the "ar" pickup the object modules from there.  I do this in order to
|> support variants of the library (debug, profiled, optimized, etc.)
|> 
|> Any ideas?

This problem is fairly easily solvable with standard make, simply:

rm libmy.a	#or whatever it is called
make ARFLAGS=qv libmy.a

You can of course get quite fancy and define pattern rules for creating an archive
entry from an object file in a sub-directory instead of the c source as it is
today.

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Michael Salmon

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