ar, ranlib docs wrong under ultrix 4.0
Mike Olson
mao at postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Oct 18 06:57:58 AEST 1990
we just installed ultrix 4.0 on a few of our decstation 3100's here.
the documentation for ar claims that temporary files are located as
follows:
... If the l
option is not used then the value of the environment symbol,
TMPDIR, is used as the directory for temporary files. If
TMPDIR is not defined or if the directory it references is
not writable then /tmp is used.
in fact TMPDIR is never examined; files are put in /tmp regardless of the
setting of environment variables. documentation for ranlib claims that
... The ranlib command uses ar(1) to
reconstruct the archive, so that sufficient temporary file space
must be available in the file system which contains the current
directory.
again, this is wrong; ar called via ranlib puts temporary files in /tmp.
this one is easy to fix -- just edit /usr/bin/ranlib (it's a shell script)
and change 'ar ts' to 'ar lts'.
mike olson
postgres research group
uc berkeley
mao at postgres.berkeley.edu
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