Use ar to merge libraries?

Ian Lance Taylor ian@zembu.com
Wed Jun 6 16:25:00 GMT 2001


"Andrew Begel" <abegel@eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> It's a quite lame time-honored approach.

Mebbe so.

> Is there any utility to
> creating nested .a files? If not, it shouldn't be very hard to change
> ar's default behavior to merge in .a's, rather than nest them. 

ar's default behaviour has been standard for decades.  It should not
be changed.

Ian



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