Henrik Carlqvist wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I don't, however, want 'myBinary' relinked, since the interface to > > the .so file hasn't changed--relinking is unnecessary. > > But you want the .so file created if it doesn't already exist I suppose?
Correct. > One way to fix this would be: > > myBinary: myBinary.o $(filter-out $(wildcard myLibrary.so), myLibrary.so) > g++ --go-go-gadget-linker > > With the above rule myBinary depends on myLibrary.so if it doesn't > already exist. But if the file already exist it doesn't care if it is > newer than myBinary. Perfect! Thanks! I don't claim to understand how that works, but it does work. > > How do I change this Makefile to keep the relinking from happening? > > Dropping the .so dependency creates pain, because then 'make -j' doesn't > > work right. > > What is the problem with make -j? To me it seems as if dropping the > dependency only would cause the .so file not to be created, regardless of > if the -j flag is used. The problem with dropping the dependency was that if I do a 'make clean' then a 'make -j 4 all' (all is a target that depends on all the .so files and all of the binaries), the binary may be linked before the .so file is created, which is an error. Vince _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
