Re: Extract the archive name from the .la file and use $AR (not ar).

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 07:09:30PM CEST:
> Den 2010-08-31 19:04 skrev Ralf Wildenhues:
> > * Peter Rosin wrote on Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:49:18AM CEST:
> >> Pushing as attached, expected fail on Cygwin/ar and unexpected pass on
> >> MSYS/lib just as before.
> > 
> > Why does it pass with MSYS/lib?  Does lib expand the individual objects
> > of the passed library-to-add?  If no, then can we make the test stricter
> > so that it correctly fails here as well?
> 
> I don't think there's a way to store an archive in an archive using lib.
> It will just take the contents of the archive and put that in the new
> archive instead, doing exactly what seems to be desired by the test.

Naa.  The test is just exposing a long-term bug in libtool itself:

  libtool --mode=link $CC ... -o libfoo.a baz.o libbar.a

should be adding baz.o and all objects in libbar.a to libfoo.a, i.e., it
should extract all objects from libbar.a Instead, libfoo.a is added *as
single member* into libfoo.a.  That's the bug.

Cheers,
Ralf