> > While it's true that archives are generated from the .o's, they are not treated as
> > static libraries. If they were, you could use ld as the linker instead of g++. As
> it
> > is now, g++ links every .a and .o together in one step. This negates the benefit of
> > using static libraries, and you might as well be linking every .o and not have .a's
> > at all. If you try to use ld to link MAME, you will realize that there are
> dependency
> > cycles in the .a's and they can't actually be used as static libraries. This means
> > that build systems like NDK (android) which depend on linking code with ld can't
> > handle MAME's current architecture.
>
> Ok, that's fair, and you'd gain some better parallelism in the build as well. Do send
> in these changes once you've gotten them to work with latest.
That's what I've been saying all along 
/me dots his .o's and crosses his .a's **brain explodes*
Cheers,
Terra Cresta
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