In Linux, I am trying to generate an uncompressed PAX archive containing a Global Extended Attributes entry using either one of the following commands: A) Specifying the pax options (implies –xattrs): B) Specifying xattrs support (implies –format=pax): Both commands generate a file successfully, but when I open the file with my hex editor, the first entry has the ‘x’ type,
Tag: archive
linux: ranlib doesn’t seem to add any new information into an archive file?
The man page of ranlib says: DESCRIPTION ranlib generates an index to the contents of an archive and stores it in the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by a member of an archive that is a relocatable object file. Well, I tried to compile an archive file like below: I tried to compare the size of library file