acpid in 1.16.2 doesn't build on SLES 10.

[Denys Vlasenko]

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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vda