Re: Using convenience libraries with non-recursive make

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote:
> why are you using multiple convenience libraries? If you're not going to
> install any of them, and the result is one final binary, you should just
> list all the sources to that one target. This also helps if you change
> some of the source files as it only needs to re-perform the final link
> step instead of having to do one or more ar calls.

+1 on this opinion.

The software I maintain does not use convenience libraries.  They are 
only needed for recursive (i.e. evil) builds.  Convenience libraries 
are slow and they block parallel builds.

Bob
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