On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
>
> I could be wrong, but I'm fairly sure there are systems out there which
> don't link unless ranlib has been run.
>
The purpose of ranlib is to create a global symbol table for the entire
archive. This symbol table is needed to locate the archive member given a
certain global symbol. On some systems (SystemV) this table is maintained
as part of adding a new archive member, and then ranlib is not required,
and in fact it may be missing.
Villy
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