X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 10:22:14 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Re: Does 'ar' work with native MS Windows libs? Message-ID: <20061004142214.GB1964@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F7B133D AT PAUMAILU03 DOT ags DOT agere DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C89134832705D4D85A6CD2EBF38AE0F7B133D@PAUMAILU03.ags.agere.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:37:09AM -0400, Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: >Coatimundi wrote: >>Thank you for bringing this up. I forgot to mention (a sure >>sign that my multitasking scaling is rolling over) that I also >>tried the P option. >> While this usually works, I found cases where it did not. >[...] >>Since I see nothing wrong with the source and I am short on time, I am >>going to chalk this up to an unidentified mistake on my part, unless I >>see it again and have time to build bintools myself and step through >>the code in debug. > >You've probably already ruled this out, but if you do see it again, you >might want to verify that you're not mixing path separators (LIB.EXE >will use either). I believe you must use only backslash-style >separators if you want to interoperate with ar. If 'ar' insists on backslash separators that is surely a bug. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/