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- From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: SCO ODT 2.0 ranlib question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.165155.20309@crd.ge.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 16:51:55 GMT
- References: <92203.161449JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>
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- In article <92203.161449JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU>, JGROVER@MAINE.MAINE.EDU (John Grover) writes:
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- | 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?
-
- ranlib ONLY works with xenix format. If you don't run with xenix
- format you shouldn't be using ranlib. ar has an option, 's' from memory,
- which does the symbol stuff you might need. You may not even need to use
- it, depending on what you're doing.
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- bill davidsen, GE Corp. R&D Center; Box 8; Schenectady NY 12345
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