ar.exe & scripts

Hi!


I am new to this list, so please bear with me if I am posting to the 
wrong list and point me to wherever I might get help. :-)

So here goes - I am currently maintaining some source tree at my 
University which is meant to build & run with Linux, MacOS X and 
Windows. We are moving away from MS VS and would very much like to use 
g++ et al everywhere  --> we switched to MinGW/MSYS.

Atm I am having problems with ar and "-M" - reading some script to 
create the lib. The script itself is generated by qmake (Qt anybody? 
;-)) and prints

        CREATE $(DEVHOME)/arch/$(ARCH)/lib/libsomething.a
        ADDMOD release/file1.o
        ADDMOD release/file2.o
        ADDMOD release/file3.o
        SAVE

Quite simple; but whatever I do, running

        ar -M < scriptfile

always bails out with

        Syntax error in archive script, line 1

Replacing the variables - actually these are environment varibales - 
with their content helps - but that's not what I want! Esp. DEVHOME and 
ARCH are used to be independent of install prefixes and arches.

Any clues? Is this a known bug?
I installed MinGW-4.1.0 and MSYS-1.0.10; anything more I can provide?

Help would be really appreciated as I'm stuck! :-/


regards,
Florian Schricker


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