On Aug 6, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
Back in the days when it took a very long time to build a .a file up from sources, it was valuable during development to allow make to do dependency analysis based on the time stamps of objects inside the ar files. That way you could compile just the one .c file you altered, and replace the .o inside the .a file, all automatically.
And our make(1) supports this? Does GNU make even support it? -- thorpej