Re: [patch] ar xN fixes for HEAD

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Peter,

* Peter O'Gorman wrote on Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 03:49:49PM CET:
> Hi,
> *sigh* looks like I'll have to port this to branch 2.0 too, as that does 
> not have any autotest tests :(

I'm sorry.

> Okay to apply this to HEAD?

I think it's ok.  Your sed marker style is definitely better than mine,
but we may still need to find a cleaner way if their number continues to
grow.

BTW, the tested functionality does not ever look at the contents of the
*.o files you create, right (in the sense that it doesn't matter what
they contain)?  SUS specifies that this should work with `ar', but I
have no idea whether some vendor's `ar' might stumble.  Oh well.

Regards,
Ralf

> 2004-12-14  Peter O'Gorman  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * config/ltmain.m4sh (func_extract_archives,func_extract_an_archive): 
>       On darwin, uniq can not take teh flags -cd together, thanks to Ralf
>       for the fix, also ar does not accept N, so we use the fact that
>       ar x libfoo.a foo.o will always extract the first foo.o in the
>       archive and we then delete foo.o from the archive, which will also
>       delete only the first foo.o, then rinse and repeat. Also add markers
>       for the testuite.
>       * m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_CONFIG): Add a marker so that we can use a sed
>       expression to find the shell functions in libtool.
>       * tests/functests.at: Test this feature.
>       * tests/testsuite.at: Add the test.
>       * tests/Makefile.am: Add the test.
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