Re: picewise linking and MS lib.exe

[Christopher Hulbert]

On 8/28/06, Peter Ekberg <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:20:10AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> > Hello Christopher,
> >
> > * Christopher Hulbert wrote on Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:21:25PM CEST:
> > > Piecewise linking with the MS archiver (lib) doesn't work. Every
> > > invocation of the lib clobbers the old one. The solution is to list
> > > the library as the first "object" (really anywhere should be fine) in
> > > the next lib command.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, response files are not a feature of MSVC but of
> > w32, so they should work with `lib' as well, right?  Let's see to a fix
> > when we know this.
>
> My MSVC patches indeed uses response files with lib.exe, so piecewise
> linking is not a needed feature.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter

Ah, I forgot about the MSVC patches (i.e. I didn't apply any patches,
it was a fresh checkout of the libtool cvs sources). I'll search the
patches for it and see if that helps. Is there any reason it's not
already applied (like testing)?

Chris