Need Feedback: Technical Questions Regarding GCC/GCJ 3.3 Build under MSYS/MingW

Wed Mar 12 22:48:00 GMT 2003

>>>>> "Mohan" == Mohan Embar <gnustuff@thisiscool.com> writes:

Mohan> What are your thoughts on accommodating
Mohan> command-line-length-challenged build environments in this
Mohan> way (using file lists)? And if you're not averse to this,
Mohan> what is the best way to check for the existence of
Mohan> such an ar-variant?
Tom> Don't we already do this?
Mohan> To my knowledge, ar does not support file lists. Am I missing
Mohan> something?
You can use multiple invocations of ar instead. That's what libtool
already does. (I think I must have missed part of this discussion,
since I thought someone already mentioned that.)
I think all cygwin tools automatically supported `@' file lists. The
last time I used cygwin, this was built into the library. (I know
nothing about mingw and how it is similar to or different from
cygwin.)
Tom