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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bugs@freebsd.org, mikebo@tellabs.com
Subject: Re: 2.0.5R: Is there a BUG in "ar"? -RESENT-
Cc: mikebo@freefall.freebsd.org
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># cd /usr/lib
># mkdir tmp
># cd tmp
># ar x ../libc_pic.a
>ar: ../libc_pic.a: Inappropriate file type or format

>Although there are QUITE A FEW .so objects in /usr/lib/tmp, the RPC
>objects (specifically, I'm trying to replace the hacked up clnt_udp.so
>object) which should be in the libc.so appear not to be there! Looks like
>the extract died before completing. Is this a bug in "ar", or am I doing
>something wrong?

Extraction of file names of odd length >= 17 is broken in ar in 2.0.5.
This was fixed a couple of days ago in -current.  ftp a current version
of /usr/src/usr.bin/ar/archive.c to fix it.

Bruce