Ranlib - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - USING BINUTILS Using Instructions

Chapter 6.

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ranlib [ ]
-vV archive
generates an index to the contents of an archive and stores it in the archive. The index lists
ranlib
each symbol defined by a member of an archive that is a relocatable object file.
You may use or to list this index.
nm -s nm -print-armap
An archive with such an index speeds up linking to the library and allows routines in the library to
call each other without regard to their placement in the archive.
The gnu program is another form of gnu ; running is completely equivalent to
ranlib ar ranlib
executing . Chapter 2 ar.
ar -s
-v
-V
-version
Show the version number of .
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