Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2012 22:00:54 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ld; extracting from libraries; and related questions Message-ID: <20121129220054.74d2ce8c.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <50B7CB6A.2060606@dreamchaser.org> References: <50B7CB6A.2060606@dreamchaser.org>
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:54:02 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote:
> Is it possible to extract a .o from a lib.a or lib.so, so I can compare
> it to the .o built by the make?
If I remember correctly (which requires a travel into the
distant past), I think "ar" - the library archiver - is
the tool you need.
Check "man ar", the EXAMPLES section:
To verbosely list the contents of archive ex.a, use:
ar -tv ex.a
So by using -x instead of -t, the members should be extracted.
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Polytropon
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