On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 21:51 +, Olly Betts wrote:
>
> I can't think of a way to easily dig out statistically useful data
> from a VCS or Google code search on how often it happens either to me
> or
> generally. But I mainly offered it as a more concrete example of the
> sort of issues I had i
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:15:10PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> elc-stamp: $(elc_stamp_SOURCES)
> @rm -f [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> @touch [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> $(elc_stamp_COMMAND)
> @mv -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] $@
Hmm, what's the reason for "rm -f" before "touch" here?
Cheers,
On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 09:15:26AM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> * Olly Betts wrote on Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:53:11AM CET:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:15:10PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > > That would drive us
> > > further away from being able to copy the contents of Makefile.am into
>
The way the .a work is that if a undefined symbol is defined by a .o in the .a
then only the .o is linked in otherwise it isnt linked in. But when you do *.o
then you link in all .o's regardless.
The .o's in the .a are evaluated as they are seen hence they'll not be
revisited
in case a later
Hello Olly,
* Olly Betts wrote on Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 03:53:11AM CET:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 07:15:10PM +0100, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > * Olly Betts wrote on Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 01:30:31AM CET:
>
> > > data.c data.h::: data.foo
> > > foo data.foo
> >
> > Yuck. Let's bette
