From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 07:53:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id HAA13810 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 07:53:58 -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 HAA13804 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 07:53:53 -0700 Received: (from nate@localhost) by trout.sri.MT.net (8.6.9/8.6.9) id IAA05889; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 08:49:30 -0600 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 08:49:30 -0600 Message-Id: <199504041449.IAA05889@trout.sri.MT.net> To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R: ar/ranlib problems with certain object files In-Reply-To: <9504041109.AA29409@wavehh.hanse.de> References: <9504041109.AA29409@wavehh.hanse.de> Reply-To: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) From: nate@sneezy.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > For some object file in archives created with `ar rv`, the string > structure in ar_hdr seems to be destroyed. It seems that the first > char in the structure is left out and the rest is misplaced (1 char > forward). Can you send or make a simple example of this available via ftp? A makefile with some sources so we can see the corruption would be best. > The sources in question are Mach4-sources, but I've seen the same > problem before (building gcc and ObjC-Tools). Most of the core members don't have access to the Mach sources, and trying to find out which source triggers the bugs is difficult. Nate