Re: [PHP-DEV] [PHP4] Problem with old versions of 'ar' From: Jim Jagielski (jim <email protected>)
Date: 03/28/00

Sascha Schumann wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 08:30:52AM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> > But that doesn't help at all if the underlaying compiler, and more
> > importantly the loader, does not support the new archive
> > structure. You can't simply install GNU ar and have your system 'ld'
> > parse the new archive. And there are many, many legacy systems
> > out there that have gcc installed, but it's 'ld' implementation
> > is simply collect.
>
> If people install binutils, they get a fresh and widely portable link editor
> for free..

That may or may not work :) Basically, you're requiring them
to totally rebuild their entire compiler/assembler/loader system just
so they can use GNU ar just because they can use libtool.

Seems a bit much :) :)

>
> And the real question is: why would someone want to install PHP 4.0 on a
> machine with 25MHz or less. Masochist? ;)
>

Nah. The question is do "we" want to make people jump through these
hoops to be able to upgrade to 4.0 when they had to do nothing
for 3.0. Makes no diff to me. I have a GNUar-to-SYSar converter
that allows for libtool to use GNU ar and then repackages
the archives to the system-type ones

Again, I see this more as a libtool problem, so I hope to convince
them of that :) I have a few different ways of addressing this :) 

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