Re: libtool 1.5.2 .libs/libfoo.a versus ar cru

[Scott James Remnant]

On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 23:17, Kevin Ryde wrote:

I believe you're actually reporting to separate problems here, yes?

> In libtool 1.5.2 on a recent i386 debian, when libtool is asked to
> link (--mode=link) a library, it doesn't remove the previous .a
> library (eg. .libs/libfoo.a) before running "ar cru".
> 
This is done because Libtool will often make multiple passes to create
the static archive.

It is supposed to remove them at the start of the command, but there's a
bug in the -precious-files-regex handling which causes them to be
considered precious; will fix that.

> Secondly if two object files have the same name, in different
> directories (eg. x/foo.lo, y/foo.lo), then the way GNU ar works is to
> end up with just the second in the .a, if that .a already contains an
> object file of that name (foo.o).

> For what it's worth, I noticed this attempting to upgrade GMP to
> libtool 1.5.2.  It has files of the same name in different directories
> (eg. mpz/set_f.lo and mpq/set_f.lo) and gets bitten by the second case
> above.
> 
This is an entirely different problem, isn't it?

Scott
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