cc -o -c

[jaime at excalibur.austin.ibm.com]

In article <AUVNELE.91May30171500 at auvc7.tamu.edu>,
auvnele at auvc7.tamu.edu (Eric L. Nelson) writes:
> Path: awdprime!auschs!romp!cs.utexas.edu!helios!auvnele
> From: auvnele at auvc7.tamu.edu (Eric L. Nelson)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
> Subject: cc -o -c
> Message-ID: <AUVNELE.91May30171500 at auvc7.tamu.edu>
> Date: 30 May 91 22:15:00 GMT
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> I'm working on a large software program where sources are in one
> directory and objects go into another. I cannot get:
> 
>  cc -c -o../dir/foo.o foo.c 
> 
> to put foo.o in ../dir. It insists on putting it in the same dir as
> foo.c. 

Sorry.  Won't do it.  The -o flag is passed to the linker to rename the
final linked object.  The output of the compiler is always <file>.o.
Because you specified the -c flag, all you get is foo.o.  Also, the
compiler places the object in the current directory.  Maybe you
need to try:   cc -c  ../dir/foo.c instead.

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