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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.bugs.sys5
Subject: Re: ranlib
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Date: 3 Aug 89 22:56:37 GMT
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In <10659@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>....  System V "ar" takes care of this
>automatically and so there is no need for a separate "ranlib" operation on
>System V.

The only problem with this is that there is just no way to shut it off.
In building a fairly library (400 files in 20 directories) as much as
one-third of our time is wasted by doing all that ranlib stuff for every
single file.  At least in the BSD scheme I can just do it once after I've
put the bulk of the library together.
	/r$
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