Re: static library contains static library

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Peter,

On 3 Jun 2007, at 06:37, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> On May 30, 2007, at 1:12 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
>
> > Well, I haven't found the cause of this yet, but here's a test  
> > case. It is fun to do ar -t libbar.a and see:
> > __.SYMDEF SORTED
> > libfoo.a
> > bar.o
> > libfoo.a
> >
> > because every libbar.a needs two libfoo.a's!
> >
> > Reported by Daniel Macks from the fink project, but reproducible  
> > on linux as well as darwin.
> >
> > I'll look for a fix later on. No I don't want to commit this right  
> > now, just wanted to share :)
>
> I eliminated one of the two static archives, so this should make  
> libtool either half as good or twice as good, depending on your  
> point of view.
> All other tests behave as before. Ok?

Looks good to me, except that we normally name test cases according  
to what is being tested, rather than who discovered the bug  
(otherwise most of our tests would be called bfriesen.test!).

Please rename to duplicate_oldlibs.at or similar, and commit :-)

Cheers,
        Gary
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