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Re: build: are there situations where 'ar' does not work?
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Ian Lance Taylor |
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Re: build: are there situations where 'ar' does not work? |
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Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:15:58 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) |
Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> writes:
> Libtool recently added a configure test for @file support in ar
> (and other tools) in order to avoid the slower partial building
> or static libraries on some systems (and have an escape route on
> systems where the archiver doesn't allow adding to an archive).
>
> Now, to avoid issues when GCC uses newer Libtool: are there situations
> where running $AR does not work? Cross compile? In-tree binutils?
When building a target library (libgcc, libstdc++, etc.) $AR should
always work.
Ian