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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
Subject: Re: Hmmm ranlib prob in 1104-SNAP
Cc: davidg@root.com
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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