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RE: AR error


On 20 October 2006 18:19, David L. Morgan wrote:


> 	I am running cygwin 1.5.21-1 on a Windows XP64 system, and am having
> a problem with AR on the system, where AR reports "File format not
> recognized" when I attempt to link what appears to be a valid object.  Here
> is an example: 

> $ make -n
> ar -ar -o /cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a  endian.o
> 
> $ make
> ar: endian.o: File format not recognized
> make: *** [/cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a] Error 1

> Any ideas?  I've tried several invocations of ar and I get the same result.

ar -cr -o /cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a  endian.o

works for me.  '-a' is a modifier, not a keyletter.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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