On Thursday 02 September 2010, Peter Rosin wrote: > It is actually a bug in ar-lib. When you issue > .../ar-lib lib x foo.lib > it runs this loop: > > $AR -NOLOGO -LIST "$archive" | while read member > do > $AR -NOLOGO -EXTRACT:"$member" "$archive" || exit $? > done > > (with archive=foo.lib) > > and that reads members from the archive but breaks if there's a > backslash in one of the members. This works much better: > > $AR -NOLOGO -LIST "$archive" | sed -e 's/\\/\\\\/g' | while read member; > do > $AR -NOLOGO -EXTRACT:"$member" "$archive" || exit $? > done Given that Solaris 10 /bin/sh, /usr/xpg4/bin/sh and /bin/ksh do not support (or fail to honour) the `-r' option of the read builtin (bummer!), your fix seems the best one to me. But wait for Ralf's review, as he might know better.
Regards, Stefano
