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From: "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: AR error
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:05:42 +0100
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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
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