Ralf, > > I think you want to use an archive (a static library) for your "remote > objects".
Well, a considerable amout are. However, some portions are not and cannot be put in a library for a variety of reasons. So, we return to the problem at hand. > > > 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. I figured the GNU make user-function utility would be sufficient to do this. My original algorithm to construct LIST3 just needs some way to be recursive...
