Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:15:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Leon <Leon AT caresystems DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: general on make info
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On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Leon wrote:

> but how does the make program know about possible library files?

It doesn't, unless you tell it.

One feature of GNU Make that helps in this matter is that you don't
have to specify the full pathname of a library if that library is one
of the standard ones, like libc.a.  You can put "-lc" in the
dependencies, and Make will know where to look for the library.

GNU Make also knows about the format of the object libraries, so it
can check the date of every object file inside the library.