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Re: ar not compatible between 2.11 and 2.13 ?
- From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- To: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Nitin Gupta <gupta at equator dot com>, binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 22:40:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: ar not compatible between 2.11 and 2.13 ?
- References: <3EAED57F.7050801@equator.com> <3EAED677.7080907@equator.com> <m34r4gwfo7.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 09:30:32AM +0100, 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.
>
The incompatibility is introduced by
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-03/msg00260.html
On one hand, I think everyone should use the current binutils. But on
the other hand, I know not everyone will do that.
H.J.