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bug#9941: Handle truncated member names in LIBADD archive libraries


From: Bob Friesenhahn
Subject: bug#9941: Handle truncated member names in LIBADD archive libraries
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 12:51:16 -0500 (CDT)
User-agent: Alpine 2.01 (GSO 1266 2009-07-14)

On Thu, 3 Nov 2011, Daniel Richard G. wrote:
What happens if several of the original object file names are
identical for the first 15 characters?

Oh, I was afraid someone was going to ask that...

   $ ls
   LongObjectNameIsLong1.o    LongObjectNameIsLong2.o

   $ ar cru liblong.a *.o
   ar: filename LongObjectNameIsLong1.o truncated to LongObjectNameI
   ar: filename LongObjectNameIsLong2.o truncated to LongObjectNameI

I expected that this would happen. Such long names are becomming more and more common, particularly for C++ projects with huge rafts of class libraries.

The next question is if this broken 'ar' can be replaced with one that works. Fixing the broken 'ar' might also require replacing the linker.

While this system is historically significant it is not significant in terms of current usage. It does not make sense for libtool to provide a workaround unless that workaround is assured to work.

Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/





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