From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 8 23:22:49 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA24427 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 23:22:49 -0800 Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA24422 for ; Wed, 8 Nov 1995 23:22:44 -0800 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA00606; Thu, 9 Nov 1995 02:21:34 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199511090721.CAA00606@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: Hmmm ranlib prob in 1104-SNAP To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 02:21:34 -0500 (EST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, davidg@root.com In-Reply-To: <199511090045.LAA18374@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Nov 9, 95 11:45:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 670 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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/