Re: archive members - a HUGE confusion

[Payal]

On Sat, May 08, 2010 at 03:58:48PM -0700, Philip Guenther wrote:
> On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Payal <address@hidden> wrote:
> ...
> > $ cat Makefile2
> > libfashion.a : libfashion(ready.o)
> >       address@hidden $@
> > libfashion.a(ready.o) : ready.o
> >        ar rv libfashion.a $^
> ...
> > Why is ar trying to make libfashion when I told it EXPLICTLY to make 
> > libfashion.a?
> > Strangely, when I remove first 2 lines, ar behaves correctly like below.
> 
> Did you actually *read* those first two lines when you deleted them?
> I.e., "in order to build libfashion.a, first build..."

Thanks a lot, Philip. I will try it the first thing when I go to my work
PC. But still that doesn't answer,
| Why is ar trying to make libfashion when I told it EXPLICTLY to make
| libfashion.a?

Thanks again.
With warm regards,
-Payal
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P.S. Since english is not my first language, I might miss some of the hints
you give.