Hey, what a brilliant question!!! ;)
I suspect, at least for using right bfd (object file library ).
Refer to ar.c sources for more details.

HTH,
Sergey.


On 11/8/07, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
On Thursday 08 November 2007 14:23:33 Sergey Nik wrote:
> On 11/8/07, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
> <skip>
>
> >
> > >
> > > So I couldn't build my stuff.
> >
> > Out of curiousity, why system 'ar' does not work?
>
>
>
> Cause it's not work for mips platform.
> I suspect this post was about cross-compilation (build for mips on x86).

And what's system-specific in *ar*? It's not ld which has deep knowledge of
the target, it's just utility to pack many files in one.

- Volodya
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