Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 13:17:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: Jay Qiu <qiuji AT cig DOT mot DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: GNU binutils 2.8.1: ar.exe
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> >  h:\bin\ar.exe: cp.a: No such file or directory (ENOENT)
> That makes sense. The `r' option says that you want to add to an existing
> library, replacing any modules that are already there. Since `cp.a' does not
> exist yet, you can't add to it.

No, "ar -rc foo.a bar.o" works even if foo.a doesn't exist.  At least
it worked for me (in Binutils 2.7).