Bug in binutils?

[Roderich Schupp <rsch@ExperTeam.de>]

Hi,
is anybody else seeing this:

$ nm /usr/lib/libpq.a
nm: /usr/lib/libpq.a: Malformed archive

libpq.a is from postgresql-dev 7.0.3-1. This happens with the
package downloaded from Debian as well as with my own build.
I traced this down to

strip --strip-debug debian/postgresql-dev/usr/lib/libpq.a

called from `dh_strip -a´. The weird thing is that

strip --strip-debug ./debian/postgresql-dev/usr/lib/libpq.a

(note the leading ./) creates a correct archive. The
malformed archive is 4 bytes longer than the correct one,
in fact it seems (from comparing strace output) that
4 NUL bytes are inserted at offset 4096. strip is from
binutils 2.10.1.0.2-1.

Puzzled, Roderich
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Roderich Schupp 		mailto:rsch@ExperTeam.de
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