Re: gmake help with removing duplicate files

Ralf,

Thanks for you response.  Unfortunately, your suggestion is does not
work.

> > 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

> > LIST1 := file1.o file2.o file3.o
> > LIST2 := path/file3.o path/file4.o path/file5.o
> >
> > Desired result of:
> >
> > LIST := file1.o file2.o file3.o path/file4.o path/file5.o
>
> 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.