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

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By: kwhitefoot

I seached for ar.exe and found it in c:/MinGW/bin so 
I copied ar.exe from MinGW/bin to msys/1.0/bin and now it works.  Still don't
understand why it worked from the command line but not from the script but never
mind I have bigger problems.

I had followed, or thought I had followed, the instructions for installing msys
and mingw.  I'll take a look at the wiki to see what I missed, thanks.

Now that ar is actually found I find another problem:

  #		$(AR) c$(ARQ)$(ARLOCAL) $(LIBRARY_HACK) $?; > /dev/null;      		$(AR) c$(ARQ)$(ARLOCAL) $(LIBRARY_HACK) $?;      The commented out line fails and causes ar to spit out its usage summary.  The
next line, which is identical except that it doesn't redirect to /dev/null,
works as it should (as far as I can tell).

$(AR) expands to ar
$(ARQ) to q
$(ARLOCAL) to l
(that's a lower case L, I wish people would avoid them).
 This code comes from the Spice3f5 build scripts. 


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