for review: MLOBJS.

[Fergus Henderson]

On 20-Feb-1998, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> Fix bugs in how MLOBJS works.
> 
> Because mmake puts the contents of the .dep file before the Mmakefile
> when generating a makefile for gmake, the scheme of using
> 	MLOBJS=foo.o bar.o
> in the Mmakefile won't work. The dependencies in the .dep file such as
> 	libxyz.a: ..... $(MLOBJS)
> are expanded when read, but MLOBJS is not set until later. This means
> MLOBJS won't be generated from the .c files.
> 
> So the solution is to output
> 	libxyz.a: ..... MLOBJS
> where MLOBJS is a target, and is defined in Mmake.rules (which is seen
> by make after the contents of Mmakefile).
> 	MLOBJS: $(MLOBJS).

The trouble with this is that if MLOBJS is empty, then
Make will always rebuild libxyz.a, even if nothing has changed.

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