[Bug binutils/2484] New: ar to merge in another library (.a file)

[jozef dot kruger at philips dot com]

I would very much like to see ar being able to accept .a files.
In my opinion it should then extract all object files from the archive and add
them to the archive you're adding to.
Example:
  ar rc libmore_objs.a more_obj1.o more_obj2.o
  ar rc libtarget.a obj1.o obj2.o libmore_objs.a
would be equivalent to:
  ar rc libtarget.a obj1.o obj2.o more_obj1.o more_obj2.o

At the moment we use a workaround that extracts the libmore_objs.a into a
directory and then adds all .o files in that directory to libtarget.a.
To do this in a Makefile is not really a problem, but in other situations the
above feature request would come in very handy.
I'm no expert on binutils, so please feel free to elaborate on my feature 
request.

If there is nobody who has time to implement this, I could implement it myself
(having a job closely related to compilers, simulators and linkers), but then I
would appreciate some pointers as to where to implement this.

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           Summary: ar to merge in another library (.a file)
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: binutils
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: jozef dot kruger at philips dot com
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2484

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