C building my own library

[ibrahimtawbe]

i'm using


libunp.a : unp.h
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -ansi -pedantic -g -c *.c -D_BSD_SOURCE;
ar -cvq libunp.a *.o

should I clean .o files in the current directory after adding them to .a library

[Arndt]

i'm using


libunp.a : unp.h
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -ansi -pedantic -g -c *.c -D_BSD_SOURCE;
ar -cvq libunp.a *.o

should I clean .o files in the current directory after adding them to .a library

I can't come up with a situation where it matters.