[Bug binutils/521] GNU ar on Solaris creates invalid archives in some cases

[niki dot waibel at gmx dot net]

------- Additional Comments From niki dot waibel at gmx dot net  2009-03-09 
11:51 -------
this looks interesting:
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address@hidden:~ $ ar t libmath.a 
stubs.o
signbit.o
signbitf.o
signbitl.o
address@hidden:~ $ ar x libmath.a 
ar: libmath.a is not a valid archive
address@hidden:~ $ ar --version
GNU ar (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.19.51.0.2.20090204
Copyright 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
address@hidden:~ $ exit
logout
Connection to amdsol-1 closed.
address@hidden:~ $ ar t libmath.a 
stubs.o
signbit.o
signbitf.o
signbitl.o
address@hidden:~ $ ar x libmath.a 
address@hidden:~ $ ar --version
GNU ar (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.19.50.0.1.20081007
Copyright 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
address@hidden:~ $ /misc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/opt/binutils/2.19.50.0.1/bin/ar
x libmath.a
address@hidden:~ $ /misc/sparc-sun-solaris2.10/opt/binutils/2.19.51.0.1/bin/ar
--version   
GNU ar (Linux/GNU Binutils) 2.19.51.0.1.20090106
Copyright 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or (at your option) any later version.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
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m5000-1 is sparc-sun-solaris2.10 with binutils-2.19.50.0.1.20081007 (default)
and binutils-2.19.51.0.1.20090106

amdsol-1 is i386-pc-solaris2.10 binutils-2.19.51.0.2.20090204

i am very uncertain if there is a bug when creating or when extracting the
archive. or both ...

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