Today I built GNU make on a system without make.
I then tried, but failed, to build ar without ar.
Is it pride or folly that prevents me from installing binaries.
if the ar is doing something simple like just joining a bunch of
$ ar -f foo.a foo_math.o foo_string.o foo_yadda.o
$ cat foo_math.o foo_string.o foo_yadda.o >foo.a
this may or may not work for you. i know you could do this (can't believe i'm saying this) in AmigaOS. and i'm pretty sure i've seen something like this in some configure scripts for *nix systems. a simple library file (created with ar) is little more than the