[Scons-users] StaticLibrary problems

[Bill Deegan]

Is this compiler gnu gcc blased, clang based?

Can you provide a very simple complete SConstruct which demonstrates the
issue?

Does it expect forward or backwards slashes for dirsep ?



On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 10:02 AM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> A good way to ask for help is always to insult the people you're asking
> for help....
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 9:03 AM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
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