Problems in dbxtool with archived libraries

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From: walt!rrj00
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1989 23:00

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Does anyone have any info about the following problem:

  When dbxtool is invoked on an executable which
  was made with some source files in an archive
  library( i.e. created by 'ar'), it goes into
  the wrong files/functions when the 'file' or 'func'
  commands are used.
  We find that the problem comes from having LONG source
  file names(longer than 15), since 'ar' truncates file
  names in its tables to 15 chars.
  When file names are modified to 15 chars., dbxtool
  can enter the file, and the functions therein.

Does anyone have any other solution ?? Truncating file names seems too
restrictive, now that one is used to a limit of (at least) 256 characters.

We have Sun4s and Sun3s, all running SunOS 4.0.

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