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Article #199ranlib
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 18:11
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 18:11
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I'll claim this is a bug, anyway. ranlib uses the current directory
for temporary files. Hence the following, when done by a non-privileged
user.
%cd /usr/lib
%cp libm.a /tmp/libm.a
%ranlib /tmp/libm.a
can't create temporary
The reason this is a pain is that I have a bunch of software all compiled
on a NFS file system, and I want to let people NFS mount the file system
(but not with root access to it) and do a "make install" to install
the software on their machines. So the user does a cd to the top of
the software tree on the NFS file system, and issues a "make install"
The makefile copies a library to the user's machine and tries to ranlib
it there, and fails.
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