ar

Name

ar -- create and maintain library archives (DEPRECATED)

Description

ar is deprecated from the LSB and is expected to disappear from a future version of the LSB.

Rationale: The LSB generally does not include software development utilities nor does it specify .o and .a file formats.

ar is as specified in ISO POSIX (2003) but with differences as listed below.

Differences

-T, -C

need not be accepted.

-l

has unspecified behavior.

-q

has unspecified behavior; using -r is suggested.