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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: /lib/libc.a un-ranlib'ed 
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Date: Fri, 18-May-84 17:42:46 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 18 17:42:46 1984
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/lib/libc.a has been de-ranlib'ed; the proper ordering of its contents
has in general been preserved, so this shouldn't cause any problems
except for some performance loss.  It turns out that there are some
conflicts in external names in the C library, that these prevent proper
functioning of ranlib'ed libraries, and that nothing in the ranlib/ld
combination ever checks for this situation!  A fix is being considered.
It may be possible to simply eliminate the conflicts.

Many thanks to Geoff Collyer and Laura Creighton for discovering this
problem and tracking down the cause.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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