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Re: A quick and probably stupid question


Tom Williams <tomdkat@comcast.net> writes:

> 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,

I wrote "simulate" instead of "replace" for a reason.

Andreas.

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