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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 08:04:53PM +1200, Robin wrote:
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> On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 18:58, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > unpack binutils from compile cache -- do you know when it started
> > happening?  might be the new gcc spells, but I don't think they're in
> > test grimiore yet.
> For me, i think it was very recently, like when I did a system-update a few 
> days ago.
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> Shouldn't binutils be able to work without 'ar', if it is the source of it.
 
Not possible, same as gcc that needs a C compiler for bootstrapping, the
build toolchain is dependant on itself.
The /usr/bin/ar disappearance happened here too and i tracked it down to
pnet doing some odd stuff causing it to get tracked, but that got fixed
ten days ago. To see what spell caused it, try greeping for /usr/bin/ar
in your install logs.

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