On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 07:17:22AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 02:11:29PM +0000, Daniel Grunblatt wrote:
> > Apart from that, does anyone know why test doesn't run on OpenBSD?
> > I get:
> > 
> > ar: illegal option -- s
> 
> Gnu-ism?  What ar does OpenBSD use?

Obviously and older version with less options

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ar

>        s   Write an object-file index into the archive, or update
>            an existing one, even if no other change  is  made  to
>            the  archive.   You  may use this modifier flag either
>            with any operation, or alone.   Running  ar  s  on  an
>            archive is equivalent to running ranlib on it.

Perhaps we should be using ranlib instead of ar -s

Graham.

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