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Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 16:51:17
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Ove Kaaven <ovek AT arcticnet DOT no>
Subject: Re: Memory-devouring ranlib de luxe
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At 17:34 14.01.98 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Ove Kaaven wrote:
>
>> It was impossible to "ar" it, so with the Linux advantage at
>> hand, I ran ar on the Linux computer. But of course this wouldn't link
>> with the X program, complaining that I should run "ranlib" on it.
>
>Why didn't you run `ranlib' on Linux as well?  Or just add `s' to the 
>`ar' flags (Linux uses GNU Binutils, so its `ar' should support it).

I *did* use the 's' flag on Linux. As far as I understand, Linux 'ar' does
not support 'coff-go32' (it's not listed when I type ar).