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15.3.4 Archivers
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On all known systems, building a static library can be accomplished by
running ‘ar cr libNAME.a OBJ1.o OBJ2.o ...’, where the ‘.a’ file is the
output library, and each ‘.o’ file is an object file.

   On all known systems, if there is a program named ‘ranlib’, then it
must be used to "bless" the created library before linking against it,
with the ‘ranlib libNAME.a’ command.  Some systems, like Irix, use the
‘ar ts’ command, instead.