Hello!
First, here's a picture of what this is about: [1].
Wrappers like colormake [2] have a number of problems: they cannot
distinguish certain lines of output (like commands being executed and
output produced by these very commands), they take more resources than
needed just to name a few.
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> I have limited sympathy for this type of situation, "multifile
> compilation" is against the general idea of make.
On the other hand, running ar once per .o file cost time (at least)
quadratic in the number of files, when I tried it. So "multifile
archiving" is perfectly standard - and it's usu