From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Using strip --strip-debug on libraries
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 18:27:37 -0400
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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'.

When the library is stripped, the "duplicates" are then discarded.

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