[OpenBIOS] [PATCH] Rename conflicting hfsplus files
Segher Boessenkool
segher at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Nov 19 03:15:32 CET 2010
> Sounds to me like the real problem is with how ar is used, then?
> Can you show the ar commands that fail?
Oh I see now. ar doesn't store pathname.
If you can require a new enough binutils (2.19 or newer), you could
use "thin archives", which don't have this limitation, and have
some more advantages. See the -T option to ar (ar rcsT bla.a ...)
Another option is to have an archive file per directory.
Segher
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