Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 02:21:34 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, davidg@root.com Subject: Re: Hmmm ranlib prob in 1104-SNAP Message-ID: <199511090721.CAA00606@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199511090045.LAA18374@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 9, 95 11:45:00 am
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> 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.
The ranlib+ar from -current works as they should in 1104-SNAP. May I suggest
highly that we pull this into 2.1R before release? It seems something as
significant as building libraries failing could get us some egg on our face for
a reliability/stability release.. (Gee Guys, I cant even build my libraries!)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu
http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/
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