GNU binutils ar strips path names from objects

Wed Sep 22 05:39:00 GMT 2004

Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> I'm battling the libjava build process attempting to get all of this to
> build on i686-pc-mingw32. Besides having trouble with command line
> length, I'm having trouble with ar doing the wrong thing.
>> In both binutils cvs and 2.15, ar ignores the path name and looks only
> at the filename. I know that some binutils version in the path behaved
> differently from this.
>> In any case, theres quite a few files with the same names (but different
> pathnames) in libgcj, and so this causes problems.
>> I'm a little curious why other binutils-using platforms aren't having
> this problem. How do I fix this?

Do you get errors or warnings? On i686-pc-linux-gnu, I see
"Object name conflict" warnings, but the build goes through
fine and the testsuite results are as expected.
Ranjit.
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