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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
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Subject: Re: Sun, "ld", NFS and ranlib
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Date: Fri, 1-May-87 23:30:17 EDT
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In article <11893@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>, mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Michael Khaw) writes:
> We are encountering the following problem with our Sun-3s (SunOS 3.2):

> [ library accessed via nfs mounts produces complaints from ld that it
>   needs ranlibbing; problem is that the it already has been. ]

> The workaround we're using is to make local (i.e., non-NFS mounted)
> copies of the X libraries and ranlib them locally.  However, I still
> want to know (1) why it doesn't work for NFS mounted directories, and

Why?  Likliest explanation I see is clock skew.  Check `date' on both
systems; I expect you will find them different by a substantial amount;
at least seconds, probably minutes.

> (2) if it ought to work at all.

I would certainly say it ought to work.  Keep the system times close to
one another and the problem will most likely go away.

I don't know for sure whether Sun provides the 4.3 timed time
synchronization daemon (this is *not* the timed that listens on port
37), but I don't think so.  It does not take much work to make timed
run on Suns; if you can (ie, if you can get 4.3 timed source), do that
and it should get rid of the problem for good (timed will keep the
system times within ten milliseconds or so of one another).

Guy or someone: why *don't* you have timed?  Or was my informant (we
are still running 3.0, so I can't check now) mistaken, and you really
*do* have it?  If so, where? - I'd love to be able to tell him it's
there!

					der Mouse

				(mouse@mcgill-vision.uucp)