"Ronald S. Bultje" <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Måns Rullgård <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Derek Buitenhuis <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>>> On 14/09/2012 5:16 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>>> ar does not touch the contents of the individual files.  Does lib.exe
>>>> add something extra to the archive that ar does not?
>>>
>>> The linker needs it in MSVC's .lib format in order to correctly handle
>>> objects with the same name (e.g. mlpdsp.o). This affects debug
>>> linking.
>>
>> That is actually a broader problem.  Quoth POSIX:
>>
>>   If two or more file operands have the same last pathname component
>>   (basename), the results are unspecified.
>>
>> We thus ought to fix this by renaming the offending files.
>
> Hah, last time I mentioned this, I was a coward, heretic and more. Oh,
> oh, oh, how things can change.

I don't recall you quoting spec, but regardless, if I called you any of
those things, I apologise.  Now, can we all work together to fix it?

-- 
Måns Rullgård
[email protected]
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