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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: What is _that_ ranlib for?
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>> make install
>Installing new math.h
>install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444   libm.a /usr/lib
>ranlib -t /usr/lib/libm.a
>ranlib: /usr/lib/libm.a: Permission denied
>*** Error code 1

>Stop.

>What is _this_ ranlib for?  Is it really needed?  The library has just

It changes the timestamp of __.SYMDEF to match the mtime of libm.a.  The
mtime was clobbered by installing libm.a :-(.

Bruce