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From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: C Source for ranlib
Message-ID: <1990Jul3.151635.1687@druid.uucp>
Date: 3 Jul 90 15:16:35 GMT
References: <7710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <7710@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> ssdken@watson.Claremont.EDU
(Ken Nelson) writes:
>    I have a set of source and Makefiles which appear to 
>    need ranlib to work.  Where might I find the source for
>    ranlib so that I could port it to a Data General Aviion
>    running a variant of System V unix call DGUX?
Are you sure your compiler needs ranlib?  I am running ESIX which is SVR3.2
and Gnu C.  The linker takes care of resolving all the references so ranlib
is unnecessary.  To keep various make files quiet I created a ranlib program
with the following command:
    touch ranlib; chmod 755 ranlib
This creates a program that always returns a successful status.  This will
satisfy make files while doing nothing.

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