ar rejects as-produced object on HP-UX 10.20

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < oremd61rwv.fsf@garnize.lsd.ic.unicamp.br >you write:
  > > Alexandre, this is against binutils 2.9.5.0.21. I cannot test it since
  > > it doesn't support cross compile from my OSes. Let me know if it works
  > > for you.
  > 
  > Nope, it doesn't; same problem :-(
  > 
  > In fact, I can't find the place in which config.bfd is preprocessed;
  > is it?  Or the #ifdefs are in place just for documentation?
I recommend using a standard binutils release, not HJ's releases.  
jeff