[vlc-devel] Extras/contrib/x264 -- What is "rc"?

[Christophe Mutricy]

On Wed, Sep 12, 07 at 18:49 -0400, Mark Moriarty wrote:
>    +       $(AR) rc libx264.a $(OBJS) $(OBJASM)
>    +       $(RANLIB) libx264.a
> 
>    Building extras/contrib/x264 on Cygwin, WinXP.
> 
>    The makefile nowadays invokes a call to "rc" -- what, pray tell, is this
>    supposed to be?  It errors out, rc is not in my path, so what tool is
>    supposed to be getting invoked?

it calls $AR rc where $AR is ar or i586-mingw32msvc-ar or ....
rc are some command to pass to ar. So if rc get called alone we need to
trace why $AR is empty.

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