Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted Subject: Re: C Source for ranlib Message-ID: <3603@auspex.auspex.com> Date: 3 Jul 90 18:03:39 GMT References: <7710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara Lines: 12 > As far as I know, ranlib only sorts an archive (i.e. a library) so > that your _linker_ performs it's work faster. It is not necessary > to run ranlib on your library. In fact, the "ar" that comes with System V has "ranlib" built into it, so it *definitely* shouldn't be necessary to run it under DG/UX.... Remove the "ranlib" calls, see if it works, and if it does complain to the author of the source and Makefiles that their stuff isn't portable enough. (Of course, if it was written by somebody who'd never seen anything without "ranlib" before, you may find other portability problems....)