On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 18:24 +0530, Christian Hujer wrote: > trying to use archive rules for jar (placeholder for any kind of > archive other than ar archive/ranlib static link library).
You can't do that. Archive rules work ONLY with real archives (libX.a files), created with the UNIX ar(1) utility. GNU make has C code that knows how to parse an ar archive file and examine its contents: this is the only way make's archive capability can work (it must be able to obtain a table of contents that includes timestamps). That code can't parse any kind of file, just ar files. In particular jar files are ZIP files, which are totally different. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
