From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Creating a library
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:13:53 +0100
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John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> Thomas Demmer wrote:
> >
> > If you work with RHIDE, stuff them into a project
> > and change the targetname to libfoo.a
> > If you prefer commandline, use
> > ar -svr libfoo.a *.o (or whatever matches your object files)
> 
> Shouldn't that be "ar -rvs libfoo.a *.o"?
> 
> I may be wrong, but I think the order of the switches matters to 'ar'.
> The 'r' should be the first switch on the command line, because it tells
> 'ar' how to behave.  You can use 's' standalone, but the 'ar' docs seem
> to say that 'r' should be first.

Don't know. I always use svr, because it reminds me of System V Release.
And as ar tells me verbosely what it is doing, it doesn't really
seem to matter that the 'v' is before 'r'. But if
you give me a good idea how to memorize rvs, I'll switch
to it ;-)


-- 
Ciao
Tom

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