#alright, we've fooled w/ mytime.  need to update ar toc mtime's.

				if self.settings["ARCH"] == "macos" and myrealdest[-2:] == ".a":

					# insert the new mtime into the ar toc.

					myf=open(myrealdest,"r+")

					lms=str(thismtime+5).ljust(12)

					myf.seek(0)

					magic=myf.read(8)

					if magic != "!<arch>\n":

						print "%s: lacks magic header, skipping" % myrealdest

						myf.close()

					else:

						print "updating toc of %s" % myrealdest

						st=os.stat(myrealdest)

						print "initial size is",st.st_size

						while myf.tell() < st.st_size - 12:

							print "processing",myf.tell()

							print "file size=",os.stat(myrealdest).st_size

							# skip object name

							myf.seek(16,1)

							# update mtime

							myf.write(lms)

							# skip uid/gid/mperm

							myf.seek(20,1)

							# read the archive member's size

							x=long(myf.read(10))

							# skip the trailing newlines, and the potential extra byte if it's

							# not an even size

							print "pos",myf.tell(),"size=",st.st_size

							myf.seek(x + 2 + (x % 1),1)

						print "final position=",myf.tell()

						# and now we're at the end. yay.

						myf.close()

						mymd5=portage_md5.perform_md5(myrealdest)

					os.utime(myrealdest,(thismtime,thismtime))