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Re: A quick and probably stupid question

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Tom Williams <tomdkat@comcast.net> writes:
>
>   
>> So, I'm wanting to build binutils 2.20.1 on a Solaris  8 (SPARC) system
>> but the system has a "partial" set of development tools installed.  gcc
>> is installed but but "ar" isn't.  There is a non-GNU linker installed as
>> well.
>>     
>
> You can try to simulate ar with ld -r.
>
> Andreas.
>   

Thanks again for this tip.  I tried this and ld kept complaining about a
missing "rc" file, so I'll have the system admin install binutils from a
pre-built source.

Thanks!

Tom
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