Re: question about "invalid string offset" & "could not read symbols: Malformed archive" linker errors (fwd)

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Roger,

> > > In archive outdir/debug/libxvtxmapi.a:
> > > objdump: tapp.o: File format not recognized

> address@hidden xvtxmapid.dir]$ objdump -p tapp.o 
> tapp.o:     file format elf32-i386


Oh dear.  So it would appear that tapp.o is being corrupted when it is 
added to the libxvtmapi.a archive.

If you extract a copy from the archive is this version also 
unreconizable ?  Is it the same size as the original version ?  Do they 
compare the same ?

> Here is the file 
> xvtdsp55/linux_x86/src/ptk/CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/link.txt: 
>
> /usr/bin/ar cr ../../lib/libxvtxmapi.a  "CMakeFiles/xvtxmapi.dir/tapp.o" 
> [...]
> /usr/bin/ranlib ../../lib/libxvtxmapi.a 

Quick question - if you intercept the libxvtmapi.a build process after 
the invocation of "ar" but before the invocation of "ranlib" is the 
version of tapp.o inside the archive unrecognizable ?  Ie is the "ar" 
process or the "ranlib" process that is corrupting tapp.o ?

Which versions of "ar" and "ranlib" are you using ?

Cheers
  Nick