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From: bammi@acae127.cadence.com (Jwahar R. Bammi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: gcc-ar woes
Message-ID: <BAMMI.91Mar21170305@acae127.cadence.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 22:03:05 GMT
References: <1991Mar18.134152.1446@doe.utoronto.ca>
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In-Reply-To: david@doe.utoronto.ca's message of 18 Mar 91 13:41:52 GMT

please apply the following patch to fix the problem. which library you
use is not important:

*** 1.15	1991/02/06 14:14:35
--- ar.c	1991/02/19 16:56:11
***************
*** 815,821 ****
  
        lock_indesc = open (archive, O_RDWR, 0);
        if (lock_indesc < 0)
! 	pfatal_with_name (archive);
      }
  
  #ifdef LOCKS
--- 815,824 ----
  
        lock_indesc = open (archive, O_RDWR, 0);
        if (lock_indesc < 0)
!       {
! 	  unlink(archive);
! 	  pfatal_with_name (archive);
!       }
      }
  
  #ifdef LOCKS
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