From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 4 12:29:46 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA20982 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:29:46 -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 MAA20976 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:29:44 -0700 Received: by saul2.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW95.02/UW-NDC Revision: 2.32 ) id AA19169; Tue, 4 Apr 95 12:29:18 -0700 X-Sender: spaz@saul2.u.washington.edu Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:29:18 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz To: Nate Williams Cc: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de, FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R: ar/ranlib problems with certain object files In-Reply-To: <199504041449.IAA05889@trout.sri.MT.net> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi nate ; i read this after i posted an earlier message.. i will try the one i had a problem with and see if it still dies on the march 22 snap. i will also send you a copy of the lib i was trying to build. This may take a day or two because i will have to download the application from the net via 14,400 and then unpack it. On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Nate Williams 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). > > 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 > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life