Re: ar not compatible between 2.11 and 2.13 ?

[Nitin Gupta <gupta at equator dot com>]

> > OBSERVATION:
> > I noticed that if the object name is 13 alphabets long
> > say
> > ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
> >
> > and I build an archive using 2.13 ar by
> > ar rucv libXYZ.a ABCDEFGHIJKLM.o
> > than
> >
> > ar t libXYZ.a (using 2.11 ar) yields
> > ABCDEFGHIJKLM.
> >
> > Nick Clifton wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Nitin,
> > >
> > >  
> > >
> > > > I noticed that if I create an archive on machine using ar version
> > > > 2.13 (2.13.90.0.2 to be precise) say libXYZ.a, if I do a "ar t" on
> > > > machine using 2.11 (2.11.90.0.8), I see
> > > >
> > > > ar t libXYZ.a
> > > > X.
> > > > Y.o
> > > > Z.o
> > > >
> > > > It is just an example.  The problem, is that the object names are
> > > > missing ".o" when I do an "ar t" on a archive created using 2.13
> > > > version. BTW, it shows it correct if I use same version of archive
> > > > to see the contents.
> > > >
> > > > Please let me know, if that is never suppose to work, or if there is
> > > > a patch for it.
> > > >    
> > >
> > > There are no more patches available or planned to be produced for
> > > version 2.11 of binutils.  Since the 2.13 version is working correctly
> > > I recommend sticking with that version.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >        Nick
> > >
> > >
> > >  

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