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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: ranlib
Message-ID: <10659@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Aug 89 21:13:58 GMT
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <457@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
>Some recently posted programs have requested the use of 'ranlib' but my
>3B2/400 SV R3.1 doesn't have it.  
>Wjat is 'ranlib'?  What can I use as a work-around?

"ranlib" was a utility supplied with 7th Edition UNIX that added or updated
a special archive member that constituted a table of entry points for the
object modules contained in the archive.  System V "ar" takes care of this
automatically and so there is no need for a separate "ranlib" operation on
System V.  If you have a sensible Makefile, it will use a symbolic name
like RANLIB which you can set to e.g. "echo" or ":" for System V.