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Re: Circular reference to 'ar'

From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
To: "Michael Muratet US-Huntsville" <Michael dot Muratet at operon dot com>
Cc: <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 08 Nov 2005 10:55:56 -0800
Subject: Re: Circular reference to 'ar'
References: <9FD3551F329FC341A1C8C0728CBFE71F1E349E@htvexmail01.operonads.local>

"Michael Muratet US-Huntsville" <Michael.Muratet@operon.com> writes:

> I was building a package on a Solaris 9 system and it failed for the
> lack of the 'ar' archive utility. So, I downloaded binutils-2.16.1
> and tried to build that and much to my suprise _it_ requires the
> 'ar' utility. How does one go about getting 'ar'?

The Solaris version of ar is available from Sun somewhere.  It gets
installed in /usr/ccs/bin.  I don't know the name of the package,
though.

To build GNU as without already having ar, see binutils/README.

Ian

References:
- Circular reference to 'ar'
  - From: Michael Muratet US-Huntsville

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