Re: speed up large library linking

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <address@hidden> wrote:

> Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command?

Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's
going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut.  Vendors could have
introduced `s' switches to `ar' with different meanings before it was
(sort-of?) standardized.

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