How to do test of ar package, Installed on OS | Exception String: Error in invoking target 'nnfgt.o' of makefile

How to do test of ar package, Installed on OS | Exception String: Error in invoking target 'nnfgt.o' of makefile

a) create the following program called test.c :

main()
{
printf("hello\n");
}

b) compile it to a .o file :

gcc -c test.c

This generates an object file called test.o

c) Now test if basic ar functionality works;

ar cr myarch.a test.o

--> does the myarch.a file get created ok ?
--> if so can you query it with ar -t myarch.a ?

d) now test ar rv myarch2.a test.o 

Spool:

$ gcc -c test.c
$ ls -ltr
total 25970
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 174 Apr 8 16:09 local.profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 157 Apr 8 16:09 local.login
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 136 Apr 8 16:09 local.cshrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 apppoc dba 96 May 2 12:18 bea
-rw------- 1 apppoc dba 13004722 May 5 02:03 core
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 449 May 5 10:49 oamenv2.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 283726 May 6 08:07 core_strings.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 486 May 7 11:32 oamenv.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 30 May 8 12:07 test.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 apppoc dba 732 May 8 12:07 test.o
$ ar cr myarch.a test.o
Illegal Instruction(coredump)
$ ar rv myarch2.a test.o
a - test.o
Illegal Instruction(coredump)
$ cat test.c
main()
{
printf("hello\n");
}
$


Lesson Learned:

While doing OID Installation, config.sh was failing with following to execute the make command.
Exception String: Error in invoking target 'nnfgt.o' of makefile in OID Installation