[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#9494) ar without .o files gives error on MacOS X

["Jason Short" <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Benoit Hudson wrote:
> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=9494 >
> 
> The build is broken on OSX.  
> 
> $ cd utility/ftwl
> $ make
> rm -f libftwl.a
> ar cru libftwl.a    
> ar: no archive members specified
> 
> which exits with an error.  On linux (redhat 7.1), however, it works fine; it 
> quite happily 
> makes an empty archive.
> 
> I don't know how automake works, so I can't produce a patch, but I'll happily 
> test anyone's 
> patch.

I think automake handles this automatically.  We may have to go to the 
sources (automake/ar) or just add some sources to the archive.

jason