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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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