brett@wjvax.UUCP (Brett Galloway) (02/27/86)
I would like to obtain a utility to combine several object file archives (made via ar(1) and ranlib(1)) into one archive. I am posting this to both wanted.sources and unix-wizards because I do not know if such a utility exists. If not, does anyone have any pointers on how to construct such a utility? I know that I can just construct the combined archive at the same time that I construct the individual ones, but I would rather be able to combine the archives after the fact. One kludge I thought of was to write a script to do an ar t lib<name>.a on each library file to be combined, to get a list of the files in that library, then do an ar r <file> on each such file into the new archive. This seems like it would be quite slow, however. If anyone has any advice, or a utility which already performs this operation, please let me know, via mail if possible; I will summarize what I find out. Thanks (in advance) ------------- Brett Galloway {pesnta,twg,ios,qubix,turtlevax,tymix,vecpyr,certes,isi}!wjvax!brett