SHTOOL-ARX.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL-ARX.TMP(1)NAME
shtool arx - GNU shtool ar(1) extensional command
SYNOPSIS
shtool arx [-t|--trace] [-C|--command cmd] op archive file [file ...]
DESCRIPTION
shtool arx is a wrapper around the archiving tool ar(1). It provides
the ability to create archives out of existing archives, i.e., if one
of file matches ""*.a"", the archive member files of file are used
instead of file itself.
The trick of this command is the automatic handling of archive members
which is especially interesting if one wants to construct a (usually
top-level) library archive out of pre-built sub-library archives
(usually staying inside subdirs) in a large source tree. For GNU
libtool based projects, a similar functionality is provided by GNU
libtool internally, too.
OPTIONS
The following command line options are available.
-t, --trace
Shows the actually involved shell commands.
-C, --command cmd
Set the used ar(1) command to cmd instead of just "ar" (searched in
$PATH).
EXAMPLE
# Makefile
AR=ar
RANLIB=ranlib
:
OBJS=foo.o bar.o
LIBS=baz/libbaz.a quux/libquux.a
:
libfoo.a: $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
shtool arx -C $(AR) rc libfoo.a $(OBJS) $(LIBS)
$(RANLIB) libfoo.a
HISTORY
The GNU shtool arx command was originally written by Ralf S.
Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com> in 1999 for GNU shtool. It was
prompted by need to build libraries out of sub-libraries inside the
OSSP project.
SEE ALSOshtool(1), ar(1).
18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL-ARX.TMP(1)
