RE: There's something i'm confused about.

[Dhek Bhun Kho <bhun at chello dot nl>]

> gcj -c someclass.java and it produces a .o 
> 
> file reports its ELF 32 relocatable unstripped.
> 
> ar qv myarchivename.a someclass.o
> 
> and it bitches about unknown object format. the archive is a non
> existing file.
I ran a test on my system:

<output>
$ gcj test.java  -o tester -c
$ ar qv test.a tester
a - tester
</output>

ar reports:
<output>
ar: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-linux efi-app-ia32
elf64-x86-64 elf64-little elf64-big elf32-little elf32-big srec
symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex trad-core
</output>

>  information on these options in the man pages. Does this option work
> for jar files?
> 
Works for me:

$gcj -Xlinker --start-group test.jar  -Xlinker --end-group
--main=test