Hello, On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 6:48 PM, Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote: > 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.
Okay, I wasn't aware that make actually peeks inside the archive file. So, I guess it would work if I would have an ar2jar utility. (Should be a trivial shell script). Or, if someone patches make to also support other formats than .a - which BTW I think would be neat because there are some toolchains out there which have a different format for their static link libraries. I'm not promoting them, I'm just thinking of those ppl having to deal with them. Thanks, that explains. Christian _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
