[syslinux] lua: Modernize the Makefile
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Tue Jul 13 10:17:38 PDT 2010
On 07/12/2010 11:50 PM, Jim Cromie wrote:
>
> It appears your ar options are the reason why you had to delete
> the archive
>
> q Quick append; Historically, add the files member... to the
> end of archive, without checking
> for replacement.
>
> r Insert the files member... into archive (with replacement). This
> operation differs from q in
> that any previously existing members are deleted if their
> names match those being added.
>
> also
> Running ar s on an archive is equivalent to running ranlib on it.
>
> I dunno if this is a gnu extension, ranlib should work anyway.
>
s is a GNU extension, and r is *way* slower than q on a lot of systems
-- plus it can leave unwanted objects in the file. Removing it and
starting from scratch is the clean thing to do.
-hpa
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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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