From:	Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Using strip --strip-debug on libraries
Date:	Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:12:51 +0100
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Hello.

"Mark E." wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> 
> >> A more importtant question is: how did that library wind up with more
> >> than a single copy of init.o in it?
> 
> One possibility is if the archive was created with 'ar rP'. The 'P'
> option prevents the directory part of the filename from being stripped
> until the filename is written into the archive. This also prevents
> 'init.o' in the archive from matching 'x/init.o' so 'x/init.o' gets
> added as another 'init.o'.

It's hard to tell how ar is called. libtool is used to build the libraries
and I can't decypher what's going on. I'll investigate sometime when I
next run Windows.

Thanks, bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]

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