Michael Roth writes: > Hmm, looking again I'm confused why we need to do this in the first > place...the > rule is:
> LINK = $(call quiet-command,$(CC) $(QEMU_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o > $@ $(1) $(LIBS)," LINK $(TARGET_DIR)$@") > %$(EXESUF): %.o > $(call LINK,$^) > According to the documentation $^ should remove duplicate dependencies, so I'm > not getting why we need to de-dupe them once they get passed to LINK: > http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#index-g_t_0024_005e-948 > Is there some distinction between duplicate dependencies and duplicate words > in > the dependency list? It does indeed work X'D I was blindly searching for words like "duplicate" and "repeat" in make's info page. I just now realized that in my case, the duplication error appeared only with targets defined in line 434 of Makefile.target. The fix is as trivial as using this link line: $(call LINK,$^) Nice catch Michael, we got lost in the discussion :) Lluis -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth
