From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 07:34:15 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA14725 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 May 1995 07:34:15 -0700 Received: from trout.sri.MT.net (trout.sri.MT.net [204.182.243.12]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id HAA14718 for ; Sun, 14 May 1995 07:34:07 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.11/8.6.11) id IAA23039; Sun, 14 May 1995 08:38:02 -0600 Date: Sun, 14 May 1995 08:38:02 -0600 From: Nate Williams Message-Id: <199505141438.IAA23039@trout.sri.MT.net> To: whedbee@ddi.digital.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, wmbfmk@urc.tue.nl Subject: Re: Anyone linked with Hungry ViewKit ? SOLVED ! In-Reply-To: <199505140213.WAA00222@bonkers> References: <199505140213.WAA00222@bonkers> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I finally found out that the problem was with ranlib choking and not > producing a random library. It complained of a wrong format. So I > threw in a -T to truncate with "ar cruTv ...." and was next able to produce > a random library with ranlib. Great. > is it true you are only able to get a random library if the object names are > truncated to 15 chars or less ? This has been fixed in the -current code, and will be in 2.0.5. You should be able to use really long library names from here on out. Nate