On 20 October 2006 18:57, Dave Korn wrote: > On 20 October 2006 18:19, David L. Morgan wrote:
>> ar -ar -o /cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a endian.o > > ar -cr -o /cygdrive/c/tree/dbc/lib/libendian.a endian.o > > works for me. '-a' is a modifier, not a keyletter. But that's not the problem. The problem is that you omitted the RELPOS argument to '-a'. The commandline argument parsing probably got confused and thought that libendian.a was the argument to '-a', and then thought that endian.o was the archive name argument but of course it didn't look anything like a .a file when it tried to read it in... cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/