Problems with archiver "ar"
Frank Illenseer
franki2006@hotmail.com
Mon Oct 2 12:30:00 GMT 2006
>Don't mount to /cygdrive/c/DATA/; mount points to a subdirectory of
>/cygdrive don't really do any good, because the path resolution does not
>look for mount points residing inside /cygdrive. Instead, mount
>c:\data\myproject to a POSIX path (ie. something like /myProject).
Thanks, Eric, for pointing this out. - That clarifies all!
> > PS: The problem with "ar" is still there and I think (as Eric pointed
> > out) that "ar" is not correctly reading in binmode/textmode. Once I
> > solved the mounting problems, I will do some more tests with "ar".
>
>What more needs to be tested? Until cgf releases a new binutils with an
>update to ar that forces binary mode on all archival actions, the current
>behavior on textmounts isn't going to change.
Thus I think the error seems to be clear and I need no further testing.
(I just wanted to narrow doewn, but you guys are rather familiar with the
source code and already know what is going wrong.)
Thanks! - And I am really looking forward to the next releases.
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