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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: ranlib and ``ucb''
Message-ID: <2168@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 12-Jul-86 13:31:32 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 12 13:31:32 1986
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Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
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In article <4976@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>...  (It's not perfect; if you copy an archive file, you have to do
>"ar ts <archive> >/dev/null" to reconstruct the table of symbols.  ...

I know that Guy is seldom mistaken, but I don't understand this at all.
I believe that the UNIX System V linker "ld" pays no attention to the
mod-time of the library, so it doesn't have the problem that 4BSD has
with copied archive files.  (I base this on experience with the DMD
"m32*" software, which is the only thing I use that is based on COFF.)