1 ar - POSIX 1003.2 interface to library files
3 Here's the source and PowerPC binary for a POSIX 1003.2 interface "ar"
4 command; this is extremely useful when you're porting complex UNIX/POSIX
5 software to BeOS for PowerPC (I originally wrote it to support my Python
8 To build/install ar, do this in a Terminal:
12 This will create ar and ar-posix (a symlink to ar) in ~/config/bin. The
13 ar-posix symlink is to make things a little easier if you happen to
14 have GeekGadgets (see www.ninemoons.com) installed; it comes with an
15 ar that only works on objects/libraries produced by GNU C for BeOS.
17 To use the POSIX ar with your port, do something like this:
19 AR=ar-posix ./configure ... normal configure arguments ...
25 You may need to check the Makefiles; people seem to be quite sloppy about
26 using just plain "ar cr libfoo.a ..." instead of "$(AR) cr libfoo.a ...".
28 - Chris Herborth, April 18, 1998