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From: Martin Renters <martin@innovus.com>
Subject: Re: make world falls over on ranlib libc.a
To: gfoster@osmre.gov (Glen Foster)
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 95 17:16:11 EST
Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199501041839.NAA20467@nomad.osmre.gov>; from "Glen Foster" at Jan 4, 95 1:39 pm
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> with error message:
> 
> ranlib: libc.a: Inappropriate file type or format
> 
> after //ftp.freebsd.org/pu/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/usr/src.tar.gz;
> rm -rf /usr/src; gunzip and un-tar into /usr/src; make world; oops, no
> bsd.info.mk, make mk; make world on a 2.0R system.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  How can I recover?

You need to do:

	cd /usr/src; make mk; make includes
	cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ar; make; make install
	cd /usr/src/usr.bin/ranlib; make; make install

Martin