gcc.jam: building static libraries with ar ruc

From: Andre Hentz (ahentz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-23 02:11:12

Unless I'm doing something wrong, the following is a bug. I had a file, 
say a1.c, that was included into liba.a. I moved a1.c to a2.c, updated 
my Jamfiles and rebuilt. My program was crashing with absurd errors. 
After some debugging I traced it back to the fact that a1.o was *still* 
in liba.a (hm, that may explain some cryptic, seemingly unrelated warnings).

Isn't it the case for gcc.archive to correct? Perhaps:
rm -f "$(<)"
ar ruc "$(<)" "$(>)"

Thanks,

Andre Hentz