Re: Strange behaviour in hexadecimal numbers

[KHMan <keinhong@...>]

On 1/22/2012 2:08 AM, Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo wrote:
> > When building after changing a single file, make fails because gcc -shared
> > is being used as AR and the $? is incorrect when used that way. Only mingw
> > seems to be built this way.
>
> Is that a problem in the definition of AR in the mingw target or in
> the rules to build the Lua library ?
> [snip]

The former (the definition of AR in the mingw target).

When generating the DLL, we need all the relevant object files in 
one go. $? only gives newer files, which is why the first attempt 
borks. A second attempt succeeds because the first attempt caused 
the DLL to be deleted.

All other platforms seem to be using ar, which is fine because it 
can incrementally update the library. But building a DLL is more 
like building an executable. All we need is all the relevant 
object files for DLL building.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia