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From: adamd@rhi.hi.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: ar(1)
Message-ID: <3229@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 7 Jun 91 01:57:18 GMT
Organization: University of Iceland
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The version of ar that comes with the 1.5 ST distribution is almost completely
different from the version described in the 1.5 manual. I have not been able
to insert foo.o before bar.o in libc.a it seems the only options to add files
to an archive are 'a' for append (if not already present) and 'r' for replace
(or append if not found). Is there some weird key which allows insertion or
do I have to create a new library and start again? I suspect that insertion
just isn't supported, but don't particularly look forward to rebuilding the
library immediately after the last time. I have an archive of around 250 files
with a few missing near the middle. Yes, I was upgrading 1.5:3 to 1.5:4 and
didn't correct the pathnames in src/lib/Makefile (AARRGGHH !!!!). It takes
about 5 hours to build libc.a on a 720k floppy disk. I'll be glad when I get
enough RAM to do such work on the ramdisk.

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Adam David
(adamd@rhi.hi.is)