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From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: DNI problems on a 386i/250
Keywords: 386i
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Date: 7 Mar 89 04:58:54 GMT
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>By the way, for those of you who are looking to purchase DNI for the
>RoadRunner, you must have the Developer's Kit.  According to my source at
>Sun, someone has decided that having ranlib, which is used in the DNI
>installation, constitutes having a development machine!!

Since the 386i uses COFF, I presume its "ar" is based on the S5R3 one,
which has "ranlib" functionality built into it and, in effect,
automatically "ranlib"s the library every time you modify it!  If that's
true, it sounds like somebody at Sun was really asleep at the switch.