Makefile build does not work on macOS without INCLUDE_SPLIT=1

Basic info

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• Platform: macOS

Bug description

Makefile build on macoS build fails on macOS if INCLUDE_SPLIT=1 is not given to make. Reason is that macOS does not like empty objects to archive a lib.

Ways to reproduce

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