From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 18 14:07:48 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id OAA20708 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 14:07:48 -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 OAA20702 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 14:07:44 -0800 Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA01659 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:07:43 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199511182207.RAA01659@crh.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Broken ar and ranlib in -current and -stable To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:07:42 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 918 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk When doing a build with ar and ranlib versions from both -stable and -current, I get: cc -I../scnc -c set_inn_conf.c rm -f libscnc_news.a ar vr libscnc_news.a set_inn_conf.o ar: creating archive libscnc_news.a a - set_inn_conf.o ranlib libscnc_news.a ranlib: libscnc_news.a: Inappropriate file type or format *** Error code 1 Stop. A ls -l looks strange: 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root bin 1731 Nov 9 13:59 scnc_news.h 1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root bin 756 Nov 13 16:58 Makefile 16 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root bin 15594 Nov 14 17:48 set_inn_conf.c 6 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 4294967294 6128 Nov 18 17:04 set_inn_conf.o 7 -rw-r--r-- 1 root 4294967294 6196 Nov 18 17:04 libscnc_news.a Could this be from the latest patches to fix the odd number of files >17 long bugs? -Crh Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu http://rs560.msu.edu/~henrich/