Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 17:58:03 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Ove Kaaven <ovek AT arcticnet DOT no>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Memory-devouring ranlib de luxe
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On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Ove Kaaven wrote:

> 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).

That's what I though, but I wanted to be sure.

I think the out-of-memory message is not the real problem.  You might be 
running out of CWSDPMI's internal tables.  Did you try to bump up its 
heap size with CWSPARAM?  See section 6.4 of the DJGPP FAQ list for more 
details.

Another possible problem might be that some object files are in a.out 
format, as opposed to COFF (the FAQ mantions this as well, in section 
8.18, which see).

If nothing else works, you could build Binutils on Linux with coff-go32 
support.  But if 130MB is indeed not enough (I doubt it), it will 
probably not work on Linux as well.