> On 21 dec 2005, at 13:31, Micha Nelissen wrote: > > >>> You can write a temporary script that adds all files to the > >>> archive, and run ar < script, or something similar. > >> That won't work, and using 'ar `cat list`' probably neither. > > > > Why not ? The long list of files would be in the script file. The > > file 'script' is not meant to be executable, it is an "ar script". > > Seems like GNU ar is different from other ar's in that if you specify > the -M option, it can indeed get its arguments from stdin (I don't > know any other ar which works that way). So that would indeed be a > possible solution for Linux.
All except Solaris and Mac OS X I think, or are there other platforms that don't use GNU binutils? ar --version GNU ar 2.15 [FreeBSD] 2004-05-23 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This program has absolutely no warranty. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
