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From: davea@quasar.SGI.COM (David B. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: ranlib is not needed in System V
Message-ID: <28784@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 16 Mar 89 00:15:24 GMT
References: <20:doelz@urz.unibas.ch>
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In article <20:doelz@urz.unibas.ch> doelz@urz.unibas.ch (Reinhard Doelz) writes:
[lines relating to the real issue deleted]
>specific stuff (There are some crazy IRIX problems - e.g., no ranlib - but I 

System V ar has ranlib built in - selected with option s.  There is no
separate ranlib program.  

In our version of ar options d, m, r, and u imply option s.

Having options dmru imply option s means that doing
	ar cr x.a   x.o 
	ar cr x.a   y.o    
	...
is *very slow*, since the symbol table gets rebuilt again and again.
	ar crs x.a x.o y.o    ...
is much faster.  Explicitly showing option s makes the above line compatible
with standard System V.

Regards,
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