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Subject: Re: ranlib and ``ucb''
Message-ID: <147@cbnap.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 14-Jul-86 15:14:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbnap.147
Posted: Mon Jul 14 15:14:01 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 15-Jul-86 04:59:50 EDT
References: <1916@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1278@ncoast.UUCP> <292@foxvax5.UUCP> <2318@umcp-cs.UUCP> <4976@sun.uucp> <1060@ttrdc.UUCP>
Reply-To: whp@cbnap.UUCP (W. H. Pollock x4575 3S235)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
Lines: 23
Keywords: ar, ranlib, library
Summary: Uses of "ar -ts"

In article <1060@ttrdc.UUCP> levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>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.  ...
>>	Guy Harris
>
>...  Please clarify?

The only reason to use "ar -ts" on my machine (Sys V 2.0) is after running
strip on an archive library;  we run strip to remove the debugging info
included when compiling with the "-g" option.  As strip does remove the
table of contents, "ar -ts" must be used to restore it.

This may change under newer versions of unix - the mod time on libraries
is probably important with unixs that allow shared libraries (Sys V 3.0??).

W. H. Pollock,
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