On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 13:08 +0000, Brendan Heading wrote: > > Dotting the i's: the problem I was originally trying to solve > > with .WAIT was concurrent access to an archive file. Thus, I'd be > > happy to see any of the serialization means: .MUTEX, .WAIT - > > whatever. I just chose .WAIT because: > > IMHO it is still better to make the archive dependent on the object files > and regenerate it en-masse after all the objects have been built as > required.
There's one major disadvantage to this model: the .o's can no longer be considered intermediate files. That means they cannot be removed after being added to the archive. Although disk is a lot cheaper I have had people within the last year or so reject the "recreate the archive from scratch" method precisely because they (said they) couldn't afford the hit on disk space. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.paulandlesley.org "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
