RANLIB(1) General Commands Manual RANLIB(1) NAME ranlib -- table-of-contents for archive libraries SYNOPSIS ranlib [-t] file ... DESCRIPTION Ranlib creates a table of external references for archive libraries, nor- mally used by the loader, ld(1). This table is is named ``__.SYMDEF'' and is prepended to the archive. Files in the archive which are not executable and symbols which are uninteresting to the loader are ignored. The options are as follows: -t Set the modification time of the __.SYMDEF file. This time is com- pared by the loader with the modification time of the archive to verify that the table is up-to-date with respect to the archive. If the modification time has been changed without any change to the archive (for example, by a cp(1)), the -t option can be used to ``touch'' the modification time so that it appears that the table is up-to-date. This is also useful after using the -t option of make(1). FILES /tmp/ranlib.XXXXXX Temporary file names. SEE ALSO ar(1), ld(1), lorder(1), nm(1), ranlib(5) HISTORY A ranlib command appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX. net2 May 9, 1991 RANLIB(1)
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