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From: rpaul@mipon2.intel.com (Rick Paul (CMAD Guest))
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc
Subject: The GNU loader gives an error about /usr/lib/libg.a
Keywords: gcc, gcc-ld
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Date: 26 Feb 90 22:29:29 GMT
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Reply-To: rpaul@mipon2.intel.com (Rick Paul (CMAD Guest))
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Does anybody know about the system library file libg.a.  When I use GCC 1.37
the loader gives me the following error message.

ld: failure reading header of libg.a

Why is it thinking the file is an archive file when it is an object file.
Nobody here knows what the file is or what it contains.



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| Name:	 Richard Paul                  | Tel: 602 554 2793, Fax: 961 3943 |
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| Name:	 Richard Paul                  | Tel: 602 554 2793, Fax: 961 3943 |
| Dept:  AME Methodology, SQA          | E-mail: rpaul@mipon2.intel.com   |
| Group: Arizona Microcomputer Eng.    | US-Mail: 5000 W. Chandler Blvd.  |
| Org:   Intel Corporation, ASIC in the Desert,     Chandler AZ, 85226    |
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