From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 12:25:58 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20899 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:25:58 -0700 Received: from saul2.u.washington.edu (saul2.u.washington.edu [140.142.56.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id MAA20893 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:25:57 -0700 Received: by saul2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA12234; Tue, 4 Apr 95 12:14:21 -0700 X-Sender: spaz@saul2.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:14:21 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: Martin Cracauer Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: ME TOO! Re: FreeBSD-2.0R: ar/ranlib problems with certain object files In-Reply-To: <9504041109.AA29409@wavehh.hanse.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ah HAH!!!! that's it! me too! On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Martin Cracauer wrote: > 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). > .... a very good example deleted, see his post! ... > What is the problem here? Do you have a fix? > > The sources in question are Mach4-sources, but I've seen the same > problem before (building gcc and ObjC-Tools). I have also seen this, but i had no idea what the hell was happening. I had a really big application that i was trying to get to work ( called dstool, it was a dymanical systems simulator ). It had never been built on any thing other then a sun or an rs6k running aix and XView ( at least that was what i thought the author told me, this was last year, i could be wrong ). After some noodling ( and help from jonas and his fantasticlly clean xview port ), i got it to compile. All except one tiny little teensy file that basically had two structures in it that had strings in them. The object made up fine, but i would then get an "ar failed" on it. I never posted to the list because the application was so limited in audience and the port was so experinmental in nature that i just figured it was not something worth mentioning, particularly since i had *never* seen it *before* or *since*. To restate: It is rare, but it is definitely there!!! > > Thanks for any help. > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Private email Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Fax +4940 522 8536. No NeXTMail! > "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- > plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway" - Calvin > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life