[12482] in Athena Bugs
Problem either with major.mit.edu or rsaix 7.7 'ar' command.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Thu Aug 25 17:19:39 1994
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 1994 17:19:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: vrt@MIT.EDU, probe@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In rebuilding Willow today I have come to suspect that the ar command as
it exists on major.mit.edu has come under the influence of Richard Nixon.
It seems to be producing corrupt libraries when asked to archive.
The file /mit/libdevo/rsaix/willow2.3/src/z3950/libz3950.a is at issue here.
When I build it on Major, (7.7E) it generates an archive which will not
link (I get complaints that it is not a COFF format file.) and will
generate either an empty or truncated table of contents file when I say
'ar t libz3950.a' When I build it on origen (7.6H) all is well.
-wdc
