New bug: "f" option not working

[Nitin Gupta]

%> rm -f libXYZ.a
%> ar rucvf libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
a - ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
%> ar t libXYZ.a
ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
%> ar --version
GNU ar 2.14 20030612
Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License.  This program has absolutely no warranty.

FYI, it is working fine in version 2.11.90

Nick Clifton wrote:

Hi Nitin,

  

OBSERVATION:
I noticed that if the object name is 13 alphabets long
say, ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o

and I build an archive using 2.14 ar by
ar rucv libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o

Now using 2.11 ar yields incomplete object name (missing .o)
ar t libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.
    

Try adding the "f" qualifier to the ar command line when creating the
archive.  ie:

          ar rucvf libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o

This should create an archive with truncated filenames that will then
be compatible with the older 2.11 ar.

Cheers
        Nick
        


  

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