RE: Maximizing Library Build Parallelism

[EXT-Pennington, Dale K]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christophe LYON [mailto:address@hidden 
> 
> why wouldn't you use a single library rule, such as:
> mylib.a: $(OBJS)
>       ar cr $@ $^
> 

Main reason not to would be the total rebuilding of the library every
time, even if only 1 object file had changed. Right now, I use a rule of


(%.o) : $(OBJ_DIR)/%.o
        @ar $(ARFLAGS) $@ $<

Where ARFLAGS starts as -csr. 

Dale