[cffi-devel] support for .a libraries

Hi, I was wondering if define-foreign-library can currently handle libraries that are in the "ar" archive format. I keep getting an error "Unable to load foreign library". I thought it wasn't looking in the right load path, but I tried specifying the absolute path, directly and with *foreign-libraries-directory*, but that didn't help. I'm new to lisp so please let me know if this is the wrong forum for this question. I'm running CMUCL on Linux x86. alexis