Regarding the issue of merging the MSVC branch...
Peter Rosin skrev:
One more hurdle is the $AR_SEP issue. It is normally set to ' ', but that
doesn't fit too well with make (as you have previously mentioned, I'm
just raising the flag...).
I can see one way out, and that is to create a new libtool mode, i.e.
an interface something like this:
.../libtool --mode=ar cru foo.a a.o b.o c.o
.../libtool --mode=ar x foo.a
.../libtool --mode=ar t foo.a
Then in libtool.m4 set LTAR to '.../libtool --mode=ar' if $AR is "too
incompatible" with a standard archiver interface. If $AR is compatible,
simply set LTAR=$AR.
Makefiles (and automake) can then use $LTAR if they like, or continue
to use $AR if they wish to remain incompatible...
Is that overkill for a stupid space problem?
One pro with this approach is that it is a chance to clear up the
$ARFLAGS/$AR_FLAGS confusion.
Cheers,
Peter
