Re: ar.exe & scripts

Hi!


Greg Chicares wrote:
> On 2006-1-2 17:01 UTC, Florian Schricker wrote:
>
> > Atm I am having problems with ar and "-M" - reading some script to
> > create the lib. 
>
> http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2005-07/thread00110-0.html
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/html_chapter/binutils_1.html
>
> Going only by that information, I'd guess that the qt developers
> encountered some problem, and decided to use an oddball feature
> of ar in a way that's different from its "only purpose", and which
> doesn't support the environment-variable substitution you want.

> If you transform the generated script into a command line, does
> ar execute it correctly?

Well, this is weird.
See, that's the ar-script, generated by qmake:

        CREATE $(RGHOME)/platforms/$(RGARCH)/lib/libfoldgraph.a
        ADDMOD [...]
        SAVE

That's the one which errors out with "Syntax error in archive script, 
line 1". If I now replace RGARCH and RGHOME with its *absolute* path

CREATE /C/re-group/platforms/intel-microsoft-windows/lib/libfoldgraph.a

I get

C:\MinGW\bin\ar.exe: Can't open output archive 
/C/re-group/platforms/intel-microsoft-windows/lib/tmp-libfoldgraph.a
make[1]: *** 
[/C/re-group/platforms/intel-microsoft-windows/lib/libfoldgraph.a]
Error 9

If I now use a *relative path*

CREATE ../../../platforms/intel-microsoft-windows/lib/libfoldgraph.a

the lib is actually created with no problems. This also shows that the 
above error has nothing to do with permissions as ar can create the lib 
in the correct place, but only using a relative path. Now that's what I 
call odd! :-/
I also tried $RGHOME - without paranthesis - but to no avail. But as you 
wrote these ar-scripts are not (really) meant to support env-vars.

Anything more I can provide, try, test? I'd sure like to help sorting 
this out...


regards,
Florian Schricker


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