* Jonathan wrote on Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:25:12PM CET: > > > > I have an interesting filter problem (I think). I would like to > > > remove duplicate filenames > > > > Why would you need that? > > The short answer is the final list is for a linker and the linker > complains of multiply defined symbols. The long answer is that final > list is constructed from a small set of local objects and a very large > set of remote objects to allow a user to link an application without > recompile of the entire project (or even ownership of the entire pr
I think you want to use an archive (a static library) for your "remote objects". > > With GNU make, use $(sort $(LIST1) $(LIST2)). > > This will return: > > file1.o file2.o file3.o path/file3.o path/file4.o path/file5.o > > which has the duplicates file3.o and path/file3.o. The sort function > uses the entire filepath/name string rather than just the filename. I'm sure GNU make's functions can be hacked to provide this, but I don't think it's worth it, see above. Cheers, Ralf
