Date: Tue, 4 Apr 1995 12:14:21 -0700 (PDT) From: John Utz <spaz@u.washington.edu> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de> Cc: FreeBSD-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: ME TOO! Re: FreeBSD-2.0R: ar/ranlib problems with certain object files Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.91a.950404120135.15127B-100000@saul2.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <9504041109.AA29409@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Ah HAH!!!! that's it! me too! On Tue, 4 Apr 1995, Martin Cracauer wrote: > For some object file in archives created with `ar rv`, the string > structure in ar_hdr seems to be destroyed. It seems that the first > char in the structure is left out and the rest is misplaced (1 char > forward). > .... a very good example deleted, see his post! ... > What is the problem here? Do you have a fix? > > The sources in question are Mach4-sources, but I've seen the same > problem before (building gcc and ObjC-Tools). I have also seen this, but i had no idea what the hell was happening. I had a really big application that i was trying to get to work ( called dstool, it was a dymanical systems simulator ). It had never been built on any thing other then a sun or an rs6k running aix and XView ( at least that was what i thought the author told me, this was last year, i could be wrong ). After some noodling ( and help from jonas and his fantasticlly clean xview port ), i got it to compile. All except one tiny little teensy file that basically had two structures in it that had strings in them. The object made up fine, but i would then get an "ar failed" on it. I never posted to the list because the application was so limited in audience and the port was so experinmental in nature that i just figured it was not something worth mentioning, particularly since i had *never* seen it *before* or *since*. To restate: It is rare, but it is definitely there!!! > > Thanks for any help. > > Martin > -- > %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > Private email Martin.Cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Fax +4940 522 8536. No NeXTMail! > "As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't ex- > plain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway" - Calvin > ******************************************************************************* John Utz spaz@stein.u.washington.edu idiocy is the impulse function in the convolution of life
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