Follow-up Comment #12, bug #14927 (project make):
I think the main confusion arises from not clearly separating storage from
target.
_make_ does not (and should not) concern itself with the underlying structure
that stores the file as long as that storage satisfies certain requirements.
Similarly
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #14927 (project make):
Took me a bit to reconstruct my 17y old previous response but yes - this is
the requirement - on the one hand treating object files as intermediates and
on the other doing the minimum required - just the delta.
"avoid the library syntax altogether"
Follow-up Comment #4, bug #14927 (project make):
Hi,
By treating the archive as if it was a file system - it is possible to leave
Make 'clean' from specific implementations.
AVFS - http://sourceforge.net/projects/avf/
http://directory.fsf.org/project/AVFS :
"A Virtual File System lets progra
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #14927 (project make):
Following is a way to add objects in parallel with 3.80/81
The main idea -
*- depend files are used as sentinels of the object files
*- object files which do not have depend files are extracted from the library
with their original modification date
