From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-26 02:00:17
On Monday 25 October 2004 20:31, cherry314159 wrote:
> OK, here's another version of the patch with some comments.
> Again this should be applied to Milestone 10 preview 2.
> The following message could be used for a cvs log entry:
>
> This patch fixes the problem of not handling archive
> members filenames longer than 15 characters generated
> by gcc. The problem was an incompatibility between how
> Microsoft tools handle the string table and Unix-style
> tools. This fix recognizes both types of string table
> formats.
Thanks! But could you also tell what problems an *end user* will see without
this patch. It looks like it won't be able to correctly determine timestamp
of elements of ".lib" archive produced by gcc, but then I don't think V2 uses
this feature.
- Volodya