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- From: ric@updike..sri.com (Richard Steinberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: ranlib: Bug or feature?
- Message-ID: <ric.722555435@updike>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 21:50:35 GMT
- Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM
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- Last week, I was installing X11 on a SUN (OS 4.1.3) using
- an nfs-imported disk with the built X11 files. The "make install"
- was failing because ranlib requires space in the filesystem
- you are working in, in this case an imported one I didn't have root
- access to. Here is what the ranlib man page says:
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- Sufficient temporary file space must be available in the file system
- that contains the current directory.
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- I changed the access permissions on the exporting machine and finished
- the install.
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- Why has Sun choosen to require ranlib to use tmp space on the current
- dir instead of in /tmp or /usr/tmp? Is this a bug or a feature? %-)
-
- ric steinberger
- ric@updike.sri.com
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