rfc patch PR32760: find-debuginfo for static libraries

[Florian Weimer]

* Frank Ch. Eigler:

> +If -a is given, then static libraries will be ignored.  Otherwise,
> +they receive only with source-path rewriting and collection.  They are
> +not stripped, since they have no persistent build-ids to accommodate
> +eventual reunification.

I have trouble understanding the “they receive only with” part.


> +# Handle ELF archives
> +do_ar_file()
> +{
> +  local nlinks=$1 inum=$2 f=$3 id link linked
> +
> +  artemp="$temp/ar.$inum"
> +  mkdir -p "$artemp"
> +  (cd "$artemp"; ar x "$f")

I don't think this is able to handle duplicate file names inside the
archive.  I expect ld not to care about file names, so this could
corrupt static archives.

Thanks,
Florian