On 3 May 2016 at 14:50, Christopher Friedt <chrisfri...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be honest, if it weren't for the man page for libtool on Mac OS X > [1] dating all the way back to Snow Leopard saying that libtool is the > preferred tool on Mac for creating static archives, I'm left wondering > if this is just a massive oversight / bug in Apple's ld64.
I think it's definitely a bug -- if "ar" and "ld" don't work together Apple should remove "ar", not just unhelpfully break it. We probably need to work around the bug anyway though. thanks -- PMM