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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: makefiles and libraries
Message-ID: <6246@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 09:17:04 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6246
Posted: Fri Aug  7 09:17:04 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 01:12:10 EDT
References: <701@elmgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: make, Sun 3.4, ar, ranlib, library, AIIIIIE!

In article <701@elmgate.UUCP> mj@elmgate.UUCP (Mark A. Johnson) writes:
>	Please note that this Makefile does EXACTLY what I want
>	it to IF there are no names > 15 characters.  ...

It is quite possible that your "ar" archive format simply does not
support longer names for its members.  Many don't, even on systems
that permit long directory entries.