problem with libraries in SCO UNIX

[Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR]

As quoted from <20886 at netcom.UUCP> by aed at netcom.UUCP (Andrew Davidson):
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| Is there a problem with ranlib on SCO UNIX? here is what happends
| when I tried to use it
| 
|         rm -f libwi.a
|         ar cq libwi.a wimain.o
|         ranlib libwi.a
| ranlib: libwi.a: not an archive
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"ranlib" is for Xenix libraries.  UNIX uses an archive symbol table which is
maintained by "ar"; this makes a separate "ranlib" unnecessary.  The error
"not an archive" comes from the fact that Xenix archives (xar) and UNIX
archives (ar) have different formats.

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| 	g++ -o proto proto.cc -g -DSYSV -DXSIGHT -DMOTIF \
| 	-I. -I/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib  \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/ui/libui.a \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/wi/libwi.a \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/mi/libmi.a \
| 	/y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/tcl/tcl.a \
|         -lXm -lXt -lX11 -lsocket -lmalloc -lm -lg++
| 
| 	ld proto.o fatal: Can't open file   for input
| 	ttest: /y/cats/r1_00p2.work/lib/ui/libui.a: cannot execute
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Looks like garbage somewhere.  Most likely, there's a space after the back-
slash on the "-I. ..." line in the Makefile; this would cause ld to try to
open the file " " for input (note the unsual spacing on that error line!), and
make would then execute the remaining lines as commands (the "cannot execute"
message).

++Brandon
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