[Scons-users] StaticLibrary problems

[Mats Wichmann]

On 8/29/24 23:32, Edwin H. Bielawski via Scons-users wrote:

> It is a very large project that has priorr been built stand-alone for an STM32. The hardware part has been removed and the whole thing should be linked to ESP code as a library now.
>   
> Everything works well (tested with a smaller part). The only problem is the “line too long”. Why does Scons have to do it this way? GNU AR can do it better and why can't the list stay internally in Scons/Python? In my opinion, the developer of Scons has not thought about that problem.

It's not so much "thought of"... the "ar" tool is old and very generic - 
it avoided depending on GNU's ar implementation. Tthat made some sense 
 >20 years ago, when Solaris and HP/UX and other such UNIX platforms 
that didn't use GNU's "ar" were far more widely used than today.   It's 
possible that is a less useful default now :-)  So, yes, the tool setup 
doesn't have anything to use GNU-ar features to help manage large lists 
of objects.

We had a note from someone who's worked on a project that fixed this 
problem for their build, and for the most part, it's not very 
complicated, mostly involves rewriting the value of $ARCOM so it uses 
$TEMPFILE.  I tried a quick experiment here and it didn't quite work 
correctly - it produced the tempfile and tried to use it, but the 
contents were not to the liking of my mingw64 ar command because of 
pathname-separator characters - will try to look at it further as soon 
as a bit more time presents itself.