thanks for the report
I rolled your fix into the master source
it will be in the next release

we hope to have a new release that handles xp + vista by the end of november
I have a new machine that dual boots xp/vista to do the testing

the uwin perl is a bit out of date
what perl package did you build?
did it configure/build/test out of the box?

-- Glenn Fowler -- AT&T Research, Florham Park NJ --

On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 10:37:30 +1000 Howard Bryden wrote:
> Environment:
>       UWIN    4.2, installed to D:\UWIN
>       MinGW   3.2.0, installed to D:\MinGW
> 
>       PACKAGE_cc=/D/MinGW
>       VERSION_ENVIRONMENT=PACKAGE_cc
> 
> When building Perl, I noticed that ar -r lib file... for the environment
> unconditionally re-created lib with the specified contents, i.e. if lib
> already existed, then those contents would be replaced, not added to.
> 
> The following edit in /usr/bin/ar (lines 367-372) fixed that:

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