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- From: alan@ernest.dseg.ti.com (Alan Edmonds)
- Subject: Re: SCO ODT 2.0 ranlib question
- Organization: Texas Instruments, Inc. - Plano, Tx
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:42:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <BrrLyC.n09@ernest.dseg.ti.com>
- References: <92203.161449JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- In article <92203.161449JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> John Grover <JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> writes:
- >I have mucho makefiles that ranlib libraries. However, ranlib uses the
- >xenix ar so I always get the message that it cant complete because the
- >library is not in x.out form. I don't intend to ever use xenix format
- >libraries. How can I tell ranlib, or the rest of the system for that
- >matter, to forget xenix format?
-
- Easy, don't use ranlib. Under Unix (not BSD), you don't use ranlib; it
- is builtin to ar. Just remove it or rename it to ranlib.xenix, and
- create a link from /bin/true to ranlib so your makefiles will still
- work.
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