Re: ar cru piecewise linking of same named objects

[Robert Boehne]

Kevin Ryde wrote:
> 
> I think I've struck a bit of a problem trying the cvs libtool with
> GMP.  GMP has some object files with the same name, like mpz/random.lo
> and mpn/random.lo.  On vax-dec-ultrix4.5, libtool decides the command
> line limit is 3073, and does the final libgmp library link in two
> pieces.  Unfortunately one random.lo happens to be in the first piece
> and one in the second.  The library construction uses "ar cru" for
> both pieces and the second therefore replaces the first, whereas I
> hoped to have both in the library.
> 
> Leaving aside the question of whether same-named objects are a good
> idea in general, perhaps libtool should be using "ar q" or "ar qs" or
> some such for the second and subsequent pieces.
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Kevin:

Could you try changing AR_FLAGS in your libtool script
to see if that works?
This problem is really inherent in our design, or an inherent
problem in using objects with the same name in a single
library, depending on your point of view.  ;)
  I don't really see a way around this, unless some other
combination of ar flags is found to not produce any regressions
on any platform.  I'm open to ideas though...

Thanks,

Robert

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