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From: Steven R. Staton
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 15:10

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When I build an archive (library) using 'ar r <objectfilelist>' and then  
run ranlib on it, I cannot link the object modules into any code.  ld  
reports:

/bin/ld: table of contents for archive: /usr/lib/libTest.a is out of date;  
rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it)

When I build the f2c package, it does the exact same thing except that I  
can link the libF77 and libI77 libraries without incident.  The only  
difference between how f2c makes it's libraries is in the source; ie. no  
difference in the methodology.

Does anyone know what secret ingredient I am missing?
-- 
     Steven R. Staton      |   The two most common things in the
     Micrografx, Inc.      | Universe are Dark Matter and Stupidity
  sstaton@micrografx.com   |

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