%% "Story, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: sp> I *believe* this shows a bug in gmake in the maintenance of archives. sp> GNU Make version 3.79.1, by Richard Stallman and Roland McGrath.
sp> libsicom.a: libsicom.a(parser.o) sp> $(CC) -c $(CFLAGS) $(?:.o=.c) sp> ar rv $@ $?; rm -f $? sp> .c.a:; sp> create a library with something in it, not parser.o sp> a - junk.o sp> -------------------- sp> show the library contents ... sp> rw-rw-r-- 5732/302 17648 Mar 11 09:39 2004 junk.o Why are you doing this step (creating junk.o)? Is that important somehow to show the bug? sp> ask make what it has to do to make the library ... sp> cc -c parser.c sp> ar rv libsicom.a parser.o; rm -f parser.o sp> -------------- sp> cc -c sp> cc: no input files sp> make: *** [libsicom.a] Error 1 sp> -------------- sp> cc -c -o parser.o parser.c sp> ar rv libsicom.a parser.o sp> a - parser.o sp> rm parser.o sp> I ask make how it would build the library and it tells me the sp> correct answer. Then I ask it to do it, and it can't. What's sp> going on? No idea. It works fine for me; here's the test I used: $ cat Makefile libsicom.a: libsicom.a(parser.o) ; @echo '$$? = $?' .c.a:; $ touch parser.c $ make parser.o Just as expected. Does my example show the same error as yours, on your system? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
