Re: ar not compatible between 2.11 and 2.13 ?

[Nitin Gupta <gupta@equator.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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