Re: archive members - a HUGE confusion

[Paul Smith]

On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 01:23 -0700, Payal wrote:
> On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> > On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Payal <address@hidden> wrote:
> > ...
> > > $ cat Makefile2
> > > libfashion.a : libfashion(ready.o)
> > >        @ranlib $@
> > > libfashion.a(ready.o) : ready.o
> > >        ar rv libfashion.a $^
> > ...
> > > Why is ar trying to make libfashion when I told it EXPLICTLY to make 
> > > libfashion.a?
> > > Strangely, when I remove first 2 lines, ar behaves correctly like below.
> > 
> > Did you actually *read* those first two lines when you deleted them?
> > I.e., "in order to build libfashion.a, first build..."
> 
> Thanks a lot, Philip. I will try it the first thing when I go to my work
> PC. But still that doesn't answer,
> | Why is ar trying to make libfashion when I told it EXPLICTLY to make
> | libfashion.a?

Yes it does.  Look again at what you wrote:

> > libfashion.a : libfashion(ready.o)
                            ^^^

In programming, you HAVE to pay attention to the little things, like
extra commas or missing extensions.

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