[Mingw-msys] [mingw - MSYS] ar works on command line but not in make

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By: kwhitefoot

I'm trying to compile Spice 3f5 on win2k in msys.
After a few hurdles I can execute the build script but when it tries to create
an ar archive ar complains.  Here is the offending line:

ar cql /d/users/kjw/mingw/spice3f5/src/lib/dev.a ltra.o ltraacct.o ltraacld.o
ltraask.o ltradel.o ltradest.o ltraload.o ltramdel.o ltramisc.o ltrampar.o ltrapar.o
ltraset.o ltratemp.o ltratrun.o ltramask.o

ar spits out the usage summary instead of doing the job.  The strange thing
(to me anyway) is that if I pause the script with control-s and start a new
msys window and manually cd to the relevant directory and issue the same command
from the command line it works.

Does anyone have any ideas?  I would very much like to get this done so that
there will be a version of Spice3f5 that has both source code and a documented
method of compiling on Windows.


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