On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 17:39 +0200, Stephan Beal wrote: > Can I skip those > topics since I am not a C coder? > > Absolutely.
You can skip those topics even if you ARE a C coder. These days, when disks providing 100's of gigabytes of storage are the norm, the benefits gained by the special archive handling features of make are far less important than they once were. There's still a slight performance improvement to be gained but unless you have truly massive archive libraries you won't notice it. And, there are real disadvantages such as not being able to properly support parallel builds (although this can be overcome, I believe, with sufficient trickery). -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[email protected]> Find some GNU make tips at: http://www.gnu.org http://make.mad-scientist.net "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
