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From: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>
To: Gisle Vanem <giva AT bryggen DOT bgnett DOT no>
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 01:13:05 +0000
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Subject: Re: linking huge project
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On  6 Jul 98 at 18:30, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> file.rsp can be generated automatically by make. OTOH, do something
> like:
> 
> libfile.a: file.rsp
>            ar rvs @file.rsp
> 
> file.rsp: makefile
>           echo $(OBJS) > $<

I don't think that's right.  make --dry-run gives:

: echo x.o y.o z.o > makefile
: ar rvs @file.rsp

Overwriting the makefile is probably not what you wanted to do.  You 
probably meant "$@" instead of "$<".

> BTW. Borland's make has the inline file-operator which AFAIK lacks
> in GNU make:
> 
> libfile.a:
>          ar rvs @&&|
>          $(OBJS)
> |
> 
> Anybody know how to accomplish the same with GNU-make?

Sorry, I don't know what this achieves so I can't say.  Perhaps you 
could explain what its effect is?

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