Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!axion!delluk!tim From: tim@delluk.uucp (Tim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386 Subject: Re: libg.a for Esix Rev D is hosed, 'is not in archive format' Keywords: libg.a, ar Message-ID: Date: 18 Dec 90 10:28:22 GMT References: <207@hacker.UUCP> <1990Dec18.035730.4164@karnak.cactus.org> Sender: usenet@delluk.uucp (Usenet posting login) Organization: Dell Computer Corp., Bracknell, UK Lines: 22 In <1990Dec18.035730.4164@karnak.cactus.org> john@karnak.cactus.org (John B. Meaders Jr.) writes: >In article <207@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes: >> >>When I do 'ar t /usr/lib/libg.a' I get: >> >> ar: /usr/lib/libg.a not in archive format >> >>Could someone please mail me theirs (uuencoded)? >>Thanks. -- SMY >Mine is the same way. Perhaps it isn't hosed. Quite correct - it's really an object file, not an archive. However ld doesn't care and it means you can say -lg rather than /usr/lib/libg.o !! Tim -- Tim Wright, Dell Computer Corp. (UK) | Email address Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1RW | Domain: tim@dell.co.uk Tel: +44-344-860456 | Uucp: ...!ukc!delluk!tim "What's the problem? You've got an IQ of six thousand, haven't you?"