Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ncar!acdpyr.ucar.edu!pack From: pack@acdpyr.ucar.edu (Dan Packman) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Makefiles for library maintenance Keywords: make Message-ID: <1108@ncar.ucar.edu> Date: 9 Dec 88 18:37:49 GMT Sender: news@ncar.ucar.edu Reply-To: pack@acdpyr.ucar.edu (Dan Packman) Organization: Atmospheric Chemistry Division/NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 25 The documentation for make (both ATT and UCB) says one can reference a module in a library, that is a(b) means the element b in archive a. One would hope that updates on this module would be calculated from the date recorded in the archive a and not the date of the archive itself. My tests of this seem to indicate that the archive date in incorrectly used and not the element date. I can, of course, extract all elements in the archive with the appropriate date before invoking make and then update the archive after exiting make via the following script: #! /bin/csh # Fool dumb makes to allow archive of object files ar xo *.a /bin/make $* ar r *.a *.o rm *.o One could generalize to multiple local archives, but I'd rather find a more elegant and faster solution within make (a newer version?). For large modules, the vast numbers of object files are getting in my way. Do I have to redefine all suffixes? Any help will be appreciated. PS: This problem seems to exist in the vms make clone mms. Dan Packman NCAR INTERNET: pack@acdpyr.UCAR.EDU (303) 497-1427 P.O. Box 3000 CSNET: pack@ncar.CSNET Boulder, CO 80307 DECNET SPAN: 9.367::PACK