libtool: Archivers

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1 15.3.5 Archivers
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1 On all known systems, building a static library can be accomplished by
1 running 'ar cru libNAME.a OBJ1.o OBJ2.o ...', where the '.a' file is the
1 output library, and each '.o' file is an object file.
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1    On all known systems, if there is a program named 'ranlib', then it
1 must be used to "bless" the created library before linking against it,
1 with the 'ranlib libNAME.a' command.  Some systems, like Irix, use the
1 'ar ts' command, instead.
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