From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
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Subject: Re: makefile help
Date: 23 Feb 1997 11:22:08 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On 20 Feb 1997, George Foot wrote:

: > If you're only linking one file, you can just use:
: > 
: > gxx -o foo.exe -Wall -O2 -c foo.cc -lalleg
:       ^^^^^^^^^^           ^^
: Either -o foo.exe or -c, but not both!  If you want to link, leave out
: -c, and it will work.

Oops...

: Hey, that's GNU Make we are using, remember?  It doesn't need to be
: told all these trivia, it already knows about them.  All you need is
: to tell it something it *doesn't* know.  Observe:

Is this reliable, though? I would have thought the assumptions about
what make does or doesn't know would be more susceptible to breaking
on some users' systems. How universal is this stuff? 

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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.