Re: Request for help in setting a variable in GNU Make.

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Alexey Neyman <address@hidden> writes:

  an> Paul,
  an> On Thursday 06 April 2006 16:18, Paul D. Smith wrote:
  >> $(PROG): $(SRC)
  >>        gcc -o $@ $? $(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(filter-out $?,$^))

  an> Nitpicking: this will change the linking order, depending on what 
  an> objects were modified since the most recent linkage. Portable 
  an> programs should not depend on this. Though I have encountered the 
  an> ones that did :)

If these were libraries you would definitely be correct: we'd need to
preserve the order.

But there's no linking order issue with .o files, because they are all
linked all the time anyway.

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