russel@ucl-cs.arpa (01/27/84)
From: Russel Winder <russel@ucl-cs.arpa> Hello, Using the archive constructs for make as expoused in the manual there are at least 3 problems: (Well there are for the 4.1bsd and 2.8bsd distributions anyway) 1) It crashes if the archive file does not exist. A fix for this problem is known thanks to the Ada group at York University. 2) It always picks up the current time as the last modification time for archive members. This means that any file dependendent on an archive member will always need updating (compiling or whatever) and also archive members never need updating. ***Error on net connection*** === brl netread error from UCL-CS at Fri Jan 27 10:41:20 ===
russel@ucl-cs.arpa (01/27/84)
From: Russel Winder <russel@ucl-cs.arpa> Hello, Using the archive constructs for make as expoused in the manual there are at least 3 problems: (Well there are for the 4.1bsd and 2.8bsd distributions anyway) 1) It crashes if the archive file does not exist. A fix for this problem is known thanks to the Ada group at York University. 2) It always picks up the current time as the last modification time for archive members. This means that any file dependendent on an archive member will always need updating (compiling or whatever) and also archive members never need updating. 3) When using the object archive construct, make baulks over the __.SYMDEF file because it's not in object format and then it crashes. Is there anybody out there who can help with fixes? Russel Winder Dept of Computer Science UCL, London