Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:45:00 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu Cc: davidg@root.com Subject: Re: Hmmm ranlib prob in 1104-SNAP Message-ID: <199511090045.LAA18374@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Does anyone have any clues as to what might make this happen? This works just >peachy on a 2.0.5 system, and only fails with a few sets of files. >dev1# make >cc -Wall -O -I../scnc -c scnc_group_add_del.c >cc -Wall -O -I../scnc -c scnc_group_add_del_user.c >cc -Wall -O -I../scnc -c scnc_list_group.c >cc -Wall -O -I../scnc -c scnc_get_next_gid.c >rm -f libscnc_group.a >ar vr libscnc_group.a scnc_group_add_del.o scnc_group_add_del_user.o >scnc_list_group.o scnc_get_next_gid.o >ar: creating archive libscnc_group.a >a - scnc_group_add_del.o >a - scnc_group_add_del_user.o >a - scnc_list_group.o >a - scnc_get_next_gid.o >ranlib libscnc_group.a >ranlib: libscnc_group.a: Inappropriate file type or format >*** Error code 1 ranlib is broken on files with odd length >= 17 in -stable. This is fixed in -current. ar was broken on files with odd length >= 17 in 2.0.5. The combined brokenness apparently allowed ranlib to work in 2.0.5. Bruce
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