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From: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Subject: Re: gcc-ar woes
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.134152.1446@doe.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca (David Megginson)
Organization: Dictionary of Old English Project, University of Toronto
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1991 13:41:52 GMT


In <IbshhLu00VADIIZ2Ev@andrew.cmu.edu>, Eric Stuyvesant writes:
> 
>     I just recently got my 4 Mb system, and I just tried gcc-ar for the
> first time.  It doesn't seem to work.  With everything in the right
> place, the following occurs:
> 
> % ar r libab.olb abcd.o
> Creating archive file `libab.olb'
> ar: access denied for libab.ol$
> cmd exit code 1
> %
> 
> ... and a very small file named libab.olb is created.  A file named
> libab.ol$ which is a few bytes larger than abcd.o is also created.
> 
>     The version of gcc-ar I am using is the one that's in the bin.zoo
> from terminator (gcc-1.37).
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 

libab.ol$ is, actually, what you are looking for. I had the same problem
with gcc-ar until I recompiled it with Eric Smith's MiNT library (the
panacea for program woes). Just rename libab.ol$ to libab.olb and you'll
have your archive.

David

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