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Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: | Hello, | | A change dated 2004-12-10 broke handling of archives containing multiple | members of the same name for GNU binutils. Unlike what the relevant | ChangeLog entry suggests may be true for all ar implementations, GNU ar | actually extracts all matching members. OTOH, it only deletes first | matching ones. As a result, when renaming archive members, all the new | files are really copies of the last member. |
Aw crap! Oh well, Alexandre Olivia has a patch, applied to gcc, that avoids putting duplicate members in the archive in the first place. Seems like a good plan. I'll go look for it.
Thanks for reporting this, Peter - -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (Darwin)
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