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 POSIX 1003.1-2008 (ISO/IEC 9945-2009) 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.