makefiles

[Tim Brown]

I have been wrestling with this problem, I *have* RTFM and still I am
a little confused.  I wrote some functions and put them into a
library.  Can someone suggest the best way to maintain the library
with as few lines as possible but still maintain it the same way as
individually targeted objects?

I do it like this now:

replace.o:	replace.c $(includes)
		cc $(CFLAGS) -c replace.c

[ many other functions set up just like the first ]

libccd.a:	$(objs) /* All the .o's */
		ar rv libccd.a $(objs)

This works but is error prone and tedious to change, any ideas?

I tried this:

libccd:		$(objs)  .... where objs are like, libccd(replace.o)...
		@echo Library up to date!

The above is from the manual and seems to work ok, but make doesn't
see changes in the .c files this way.  What am I missing?  The book
says something about a $% macro but gives no example.


Thanks in advance.  I would like email replies on this whether or not
you post a followup.

Tim Brown
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