26 Feb
2023
26 Feb
'23
1:34 a.m.
arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote in
<202302251928.31PJSXc1004140(a)freefriends.org>:
|Arno Griffioen via TUHS <tuhs(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
|> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 05:45:16AM -0700, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
|>> With tar and cpio, ar apparently fell out of use as a general
|>> archiver, and today it's only used for libraries of relocatable
|>> object files.
|>
|> 'ar' is alive and well as the archive format for .deb files though, \
|> so it
|> could be argued that it's actually hugely in use as an archiver all \
|> across
|> the world :)
|>
|> Bye, Arno.
|
|I wasn't aware of that. Thanks.
It is also used during the build phase of some programs (groff
last i looked). Ie they build their support objects, and instead
of having make rules with $(OBJ) they simply link against the
library. (I have not looked whether they build with -fPIC
/ -fPIE, to outrule your "relocatable", that is.)
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