[PATCH] ar: Add --thin for creating thin archives
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Tue Jan 11 12:43:38 GMT 2022
Hi Fangrui,
> On 2022-01-10, Fangrui Song wrote:
>> In many ar implementations (FreeBSD, elfutils, etc), ar -T has the
>> X/Open System Interface specified semantics. Therefore -T for thin
>> archives is not recommended for portability.
>>
>> PR binutils/28759
>> * ar.c (long_options): Add --thin.
>> * binutils/testsuite/binutils-all/ar.exp: Add tests.
>> * NEWS: Mention --thin.
Patch approved - please apply.
Cheers
Nick
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