> On 21 dec 2005, at 13:40, Marco van de Voort wrote: > > >> Seems like GNU ar is different from other ar's in that if you specify > >> the -M option, it can indeed get its arguments from stdin (I don't > >> know any other ar which works that way). So that would indeed be a > >> possible solution for Linux. > > > > All except Solaris and Mac OS X I think, or are there other > > platforms that > > don't use GNU binutils?
(I meant of course from the systems we support. Note that some targets (like OS/2 EMX) might base on very old GNU builds, with the same effective problem, non existance of certain params) > The ar man page on HP-UX is from GNU ar, but it doesn't support -M. > The reason might be that the man page is from 1991 (and that's for HP- > UX B.11.22 for Itanic, i.e. the latest). The ar itself doesn't seem > to be GNU ar, since it doesn't recognize -v, -V nor --version. I > guess I should have said that most non-free OS'es probably don't > support it, since I'm not a *BSD user and thus don't know what they > support and what they don't. Solaris is btw also in dubio. IIRC the default tools are not GNU, but the GNU ones are available in a pkg, and fairly common. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
