I was attempting to use the -l link flag feature in a prerequisite and discovered a surprising feature. make will not match a -lxx prerequisite with a libxx.a target. The obvious makefile works:
count_words: count_words.o libcounter.a libcounter.a: libcounter.a(lexer.o) But when the libcounter.a prereq is changed to the -l form it fails: count_words: count_words.o -lcounter libcounter.a: libcounter.a(lexer.o) When run yields: $ make gcc -c -o count_words.o count_words.c make: *** No rule to make target `-lcounter', needed by `count_words'. Stop. $ make --version GNU Make 3.80 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Is this expected behavior? Thanks, Robert _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
