i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar not found

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afrodocter1 · Post by **afrodocter1** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 1:35 am

i was emerging world and i got an error that
"i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar" was not found
how can i find out which package yields "i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar". i tried an
equery belongs i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar
and it found nothing. any ideas?

m_spidey · Post by **m_spidey** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 2:59 am

Can you post the full error please?

drescherjm · Post by **drescherjm** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 4:09 am

ar is in
sys-devel/binutils

with i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar as a symlink to ar

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# ls -al i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Jan  5 02:15 i686-pc-linux-gnu-ar -> ../i686-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ar
jmd0 bin # pwd
/usr/bin

afrodocter1 · Post by **afrodocter1** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 11:52 pm

thanks, i re-emerged binutils and it fixed the problem. i assume that ar was installed but the symlink was missing.
but i was wondering how i could find out which package provided that file with out having it installed.

moocha · Post by **moocha** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 12:04 am

afrodocter1 wrote:thanks, i re-emerged binutils and it fixed the problem. i assume that ar was installed but the symlink was missing.

binutils-config helps in cases like these (works similar to gcc-config, and of course requires a env-update && source /etc/profile just like gcc-config).

afrodocter1 wrote:but i was wondering how i could find out which package provided that file with out having it installed.

That's not possible in the general case by the very nature of Gentoo, but you can get good results by making educated guesses (for example, search for the file in the packages from binary distributions, using search engines like rpmfind.net, then try that package name with Gentoo, perhaps dropping the -devel or lib-something affixes).

afrodocter1 · Post by **afrodocter1** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:07 pm

thanks!