acpid in 1.16.2 doesn't build on SLES 10.
Denys Vlasenko
vda.linux at googlemail.com
Sun Jul 18 20:51:28 UTC 2010
On Thursday 15 July 2010 08:48, Ralf Friedl wrote:
> Rob Landley wrote:
> > Not entirely sure why, they didn't specify s, but I guess ar creates the index
> > by default when you create with c?
> >
> From GNU ar man:
>
> s Write an object-file index into the archive, or update an existing
> one, *even if no other change is made* to the archive. You may use
> this modifier flag either with any operation, or alone. Running ar
> s on an archive is equivalent to running ranlib on it.
>
> S Do not generate an archive symbol table. This can speed up build-
> ing a large library in several steps. The resulting archive can
> not be used with the linker. *In order to build a symbol table*, you
> must omit the S modifier on the last execution of ar, or you must
> run ranlib on the archive.
>
> It seems that GNU ar builds the symbol table by default, unless
> instructed not to do it.
Yeah, our ar hasn't a slightest idea about symbols inside files
it packs into an .a files. So far it's a dumb archiver, like tar or cpio.
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