libg.a for Esix Rev D is hosed, 'is not in archive format'

[Tim Wright]

In <1990Dec18.035730.4164 at karnak.cactus.org> john at karnak.cactus.org (John B. Meaders Jr.) writes:

>In article <207 at hacker.UUCP> steve at hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
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>>When I do 'ar t /usr/lib/libg.a' I get:	
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>>	ar: /usr/lib/libg.a not in archive format
>>
>>Could someone please mail me theirs (uuencoded)?
>>Thanks.  -- SMY

>Mine is the same way.  Perhaps it isn't hosed.

Quite correct - it's really an object file, not an archive. However ld
doesn't care and it means you can say -lg rather than /usr/lib/libg.o !!

Tim
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