Re: Use ar to merge libraries?

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>]

"Andrew Begel" <abegel@eecs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> It's a quite lame time-honored approach.

Mebbe so.

> Is there any utility to
> creating nested .a files? If not, it shouldn't be very hard to change
> ar's default behavior to merge in .a's, rather than nest them. 

ar's default behaviour has been standard for decades.  It should not
be changed.

Ian