[VMS/committed]: Set extension to archive member

[h.becker]

On 04/18/12 08:33, Tristan Gingold wrote:
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> On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:23 PM, Douglas B Rupp wrote:
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>> On 4/17/2012 3:50 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> VMS archives member names doesn't have extension (only the 'basename' is stored).
>>> But this is not the usual convention for ar, and some tools (libtool) expect that extracted
>>> members of an archive to have the standard object extension.
>>>
>>> This patch implements this behaviour, thus making VMS archives more UNIX friendly.
>>>
>>> Committed on trunk.
>>>
>>> Tristan.
>>
>> So if one inserts a .o, it extracts as a .obj?
>
> Yes.  That looks strange, but the extension is lost in the archive.
>
>
Hmm, as I tried to explain, it's a feature of VMS object libraries. The 
extension may change as well as the basename may change - because of 
differences between the module name and the basename - and as you may 
end up with many library members from just one object file.