Args list too long

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 11, 2001, Jeff Sturm <jeff.sturm@appnet.com> wrote:

> "Bradley A. Smith" wrote:
>> What is the appropriate way to collapse groups of objects into a single
>> object?

> I don't know about the appropriate way for libtool-ized makefiles.

I don't know about automake, but libtool does support

$(LIBTOOL) $(CC) -o collapsed.lo obj1.lo obj2.lo obj3.lo ...

IMO, the right thing to do is to arrange for libtool to do something
like this implicitly when creating convenience archives.  But someone
would have to implement it :-)

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