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An individual member of an archive file can be used as a target or dependency in make . Most programs that you might use in commands do not support this syntax and cannot act directly on archive members. Only ar and other programs specifically designed to operate on archives can do so. Therefore, valid commands to update an archive member target probably must use ar . In fact, nearly all archive member targets are updated in just this way and there is an implicit rule to do it for you.