link problems under darwin5.2

Fri Jan 11 12:28:00 GMT 2002

Andreas Tobler wrote:
>> Tom Tromey wrote:
>> > I think I've found my problem.
> > According to the GNU ar info page:
> >
> > However, too many different systems assume quick append rebuilds
> > the index, so GNU ar implements `q' as a synonym for `r'.
>
Just had a look into the sources of ar (binutils-2.11.92.0.12)
The part where it says 'We don't use do_quick_append any more. Too many
systems expect ar to always rebuild the symbol table even when q is
used' is #if'ed 0.
A quick try of the cases you demonstrated before work both on my
LinuxPPC box.
ar qc libdumb.a foo.o
ar qc libdumb.a z/foo.o
ar -tv libdump.a gives both foo.o, also when fed on one line.
So, can't we use qc then?
Andreas