From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com>
To: joel@OARcorp.com
Cc: gas2@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: more on powerpc-rtems ar failure
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 14:03:00 -0000
Message-id: <199804162103.RAA01380@subrogation.cygnus.com>
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X-SW-Source: 1998/msg00142.html

   Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 15:26:16 -0500 (CDT)
   From: Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>

   This problem is another -mlittle one.  Here is a test case:

   ------------------ assembly file used to duplicate this -----
	   .file   "j.s"

	   .section ".text"
	   .align 2
	   .globl f
   f:
	   blr
   ----------------------- end of file

   ../gas/as-new -mlittle -o j.o j.s
   ../binutils/ar rc j.a j.o
   ../binutils/ar rc j.a j.o
   ../binutils/ar: j.a: Invalid operation

Was this ar build with --enable-targets=all?  It's hard to recommend
using such tools for general use.  There are too many ambiguities
among different object file formats.  You should instead spell out the
precise set of targets you want to support.

Still, ar ought to report a better error message, so there may be
something different going on here.

However, I can't recreate the problem using an ar configured for
powerpc-eabi.

Ian