Re: ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <19991129202953.7A9E11B493@ocean.lucon.org>you write:
  > > 
  > > 
  > >   In message <orvh6l85l2.fsf@cupuacu.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>you write:
  > >   > This is with H.J.Lu's binutils 2.9.5.0.21, but it is very likely to
  > >   > occur with binutils CVS too:
  > >   > 
  > >   > oliva@lully% cat test.c
  > >   > void foo() {}
  > >   > oliva@lully% gcc -c test.c
  > >   > oliva@lully% ar c libtest.a test.o
  > >   > ar: can't set BFD default target to `hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20': Invalid b
  > fd tar
  > >   > get
  > > Well, I use this stuff daily.  This looks more like HJ botched something.
  > > Particularly since "ar c" should give the error "no operation specified".
  > > 
  > 
  > Since HPPA is still work in progress which means the binutils from CVS
  > may be broken at any given time, I disabled HPPA support in my binutils.
It is only a work in progress for the ELF stuff.  The SOM support is rock
solid.

Disabling the ELF stuff is certainly the right thing to do.

jeff