Hi,

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Måns Rullgård <m...@mansr.com> wrote:
> Derek Buitenhuis <derek.buitenh...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On 14/09/2012 5:16 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote:
>>> ar does not touch the contents of the individual files.  Does lib.exe
>>> add something extra to the archive that ar does not?
>>
>> The linker needs it in MSVC's .lib format in order to correctly handle
>> objects with the same name (e.g. mlpdsp.o). This affects debug
>> linking.
>
> That is actually a broader problem.  Quoth POSIX:
>
>   If two or more file operands have the same last pathname component
>   (basename), the results are unspecified.
>
> We thus ought to fix this by renaming the offending files.

Hah, last time I mentioned this, I was a coward, heretic and more. Oh,
oh, oh, how things can change.

Fun. :-).

Ronald
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