Bug 28851 - ar: add 'L' modifier as a shortcut for ADDLIB
Summary: ar: add 'L' modifier as a shortcut for ADDLIB
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: binutils
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Component: binutils (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
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Reported: 2022-02-02 03:23 UTC by Fangrui Song
Modified: 2022-02-02 03:23 UTC (History)
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Description Fangrui Song 2022-02-02 03:23:43 UTC 
`ar r a.a b.a` adds b.a as a member. Sometimes the user wants to add the members of an archive into another archive.

https://sources.debian.org/src/x265/3.5-2/build/linux/multilib.sh/?hl=29#L27 uses the following to merge several archives into one:

ar -M <<EOF
CREATE libx265.a
ADDLIB libx265_main.a
ADDLIB libx265_main10.a
ADDLIB libx265_main12.a
SAVE
END
EOF

Using MRI is inconvenient. In 2018, llvm-ar added 'L' as a shortcut for ADDLIB (https://reviews.llvm.org/D53332). It'd be nice if binutils ar supports 'L' as well.