ar, libapt and hand rolling .debs

[Alex Bennee]

2009/10/2 Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com>:
> Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@bennee.com> writes:
>
>> 2. Is there any way to control the termination character from the ar
>>    command line?
>
> Chose a BFD target that has ar_pad_char == ' ' (ie. BSD format).

The ar command line doesn't seem to indicate how I can do that. Maybe the distro
ar isn't built with enough bfd targets?

16:06 ajb@bob/i686 [ajb] >ar --help
Usage: ar [-X32_64] [-]{dmpqrstx}[abcfilNoPsSuvV] [member-name]
[count] archive-file file...
       ar -M [<mri-script]
 commands:
  d            - delete file(s) from the archive
  <snip>
  [-X32_64]    - (ignored)
ar: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32
elf32-little elf32-big srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core
Report bugs to bug-binutils@gnu.org and hjl@lucon.org


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