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Re: ar 2.14 is not backward compatible with 2.11
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Nick Clifton |
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Re: ar 2.14 is not backward compatible with 2.11 |
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Date: |
Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:10:24 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Nitin,
> OBSERVATION:
> I noticed that if the object name is 13 alphabets long
> say, ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
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> and I build an archive using 2.14 ar by
> ar rucv libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
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> Now using 2.11 ar yields incomplete object name (missing .o)
> ar t libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.
Try adding the "f" qualifier to the ar command line when creating the
archive. ie:
ar rucvf libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
This should create an archive with truncated filenames that will then
be compatible with the older 2.11 ar.
Cheers
Nick