Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 13:17:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Trouble with IO and ar on
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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996 j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com wrote:

> >I use the following commandline:
> >ar -rc grunn.lib grunnlag.o
> >which produces teh followin response:
> >f:/utils/djgpp/bin/ar.exe: grunn.lib: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> 
> It looks to me like ar doesn't recognize '.lib' as a valid archive name
> and tries to read it as an object file to put into the library.  Although the

From what I see I think that `ar' somehow interprets `grunn.lib' as a 
command, and complains about ``illegal operation'' or some such.  Without 
looking at the sources, I cannot say for sure what's going on there, but 
any other extension I tried except .lib works.