[PATCH] dependency list for static libraries

[Howard Chu]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> On 11/3/20 4:14 PM, Nick Clifton via Binutils wrote:
>> Hi Howard,
>>
>>> Whitespace fixes done, attached.
>>
>> Sorry for the delay in reviewing this patch.  This revised form
>> looks good to me, so I have gone ahead and applied it to the sources.
> 
> hijacking the 'l' option leads to build failures.
> 
> In 2.35 it's documented as:
> 
>        l   This modifier is accepted but not used.
> 
> at least the build fails in
> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/afterstep/2.2.12-14/+build/20720741
> 
> I don't know about the history of this modifier, but giving it a completely new
> meaning is odd.

No known version of ar on any POSIX/Unix system in the past 30 years has used this flag,
so why are those packages using it?
> 
> In about a week I can give you a list of packages from a distribution test
> rebuild, failing to build because of this.
> 
> Matthias
> 


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