ranlib and ``ucb''

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In article <1060 at ttrdc.UUCP> levy at ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy) writes:
>In article <4976 at sun.uucp>, guy at sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>>...  (It's not perfect; if you copy an archive file, you have to do
>>"ar ts <archive> >/dev/null" to reconstruct the table of symbols.  ...
>>	Guy Harris
>
>...  Please clarify?

The only reason to use "ar -ts" on my machine (Sys V 2.0) is after running
strip on an archive library;  we run strip to remove the debugging info
included when compiling with the "-g" option.  As strip does remove the
table of contents, "ar -ts" must be used to restore it.

This may change under newer versions of unix - the mod time on libraries
is probably important with unixs that allow shared libraries (Sys V 3.0??).

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