Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!wugate!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert
From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: RCS and ranlib problems
Summary: Is there really a Sys V ranlib?  Why?
Message-ID: <1989Oct30.124545.6260@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 30 Oct 89 12:45:45 GMT
References: <917@madnix.UUCP>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP
Distribution: na
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
Lines: 16

In article <917@madnix.UUCP> brown@madnix.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>Does anyone have a public domain version of the source for a systemV version
>on ranlib.  The PC Unix that I have doesn't supply a ranlib.

Is it needed?  When we ran 7 we needed it, but we converted to V and don't.
So I wonder whether it exists, and why.

There are enough Makefile's out there that invoke ranlib to make it
handy to link a simple batch file like true to ranlib.


-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
	UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill
	Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA	BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET