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From: allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: problem with libraries in SCO UNIX
Message-ID: <1991Jan17.173322.17671@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 Jan 91 17:33:22 GMT
References: <20886@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR)
Followup-To: comp.unix.sysv386
Organization: North Coast Computer Resources (ncoast)
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As quoted from <20886@netcom.UUCP> by aed@netcom.UUCP (Andrew Davidson):
+---------------
| Is there a problem with ranlib on SCO UNIX? here is what happends
| when I tried to use it
| 
|         rm -f libwi.a
|         ar cq libwi.a wimain.o
|         ranlib libwi.a
| ranlib: libwi.a: not an archive
+---------------

"ranlib" is for Xenix libraries.  UNIX uses an archive symbol table which is
maintained by "ar"; this makes a separate "ranlib" unnecessary.  The error
"not an archive" comes from the fact that Xenix archives (xar) and UNIX
archives (ar) have different formats.

+---------------
| 	g++ -o proto proto.cc -g -DSYSV -DXSIGHT -DMOTIF \
| 	-I. -I/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib  \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/ui/libui.a \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/wi/libwi.a \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/mi/libmi.a \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/tcl/tcl.a \
|         -lXm -lXt -lX11 -lsocket -lmalloc -lm -lg++
| 
| 	ld proto.o fatal: Can't open file   for input
| 	ttest: /y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/ui/libui.a: cannot execute
+---------------

Looks like garbage somewhere.  Most likely, there's a space after the back-
slash on the "-I. ..." line in the Makefile; this would cause ld to try to
open the file " " for input (note the unsual spacing on that error line!), and
make would then execute the remaining lines as commands (the "cannot execute"
message).

++Brandon
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