X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: AR error Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:05:42 +0100 Message-ID: <042501c6f472$5bc4c8b0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 20 October 2006 18:57, Dave Korn wrote: > On 20 October 2006 18:19, David L. Morgan wrote: >> ar -ar -o /cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a endian.o > > ar -cr -o /cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a endian.o > > works for me. '-a' is a modifier, not a keyletter. But that's not the problem. The problem is that you omitted the RELPOS argument to '-a'. The commandline argument parsing probably got confused and thought that libendian.a was the argument to '-a', and then thought that endian.o was the archive name argument but of course it didn't look anything like a .a file when it tried to read it in... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/