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1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation |
| 2 | .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution | |
| 3 | .\" $Id$ | |
| 4 | .TH ranlib 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools" | |
| 5 | .de BP | |
| 6 | .sp | |
| 7 | .ti \-.2i | |
| 8 | \(** | |
| 9 | .. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | .SH NAME | |
| 12 | ranlib\(em\&generate index to archive. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 15 | .hy 0 | |
| 16 | .na | |
| 17 | .B ranlib \c | |
| 18 | .I archive\c | |
| 19 | \& | |
| 20 | .ad b | |
| 21 | .hy 1 | |
| 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 23 | \c | |
| 24 | .B ranlib\c | |
| 25 | \& generates an index to the contents of an archive, and | |
| 26 | stores it in the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by a | |
| 27 | member of an archive that is a relocatable object file. | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | You may use `\|\c | |
| 30 | .B nm \-s\c | |
| 31 | \|' or `\|\c | |
| 32 | .B nm +print-armap\c | |
| 33 | \|' to list this index. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | An archive with such an index speeds up linking to the library, and | |
| 36 | allows routines in the library to call each other without regard to | |
| 37 | their placement in the archive. | |
| 38 | ||
| 39 | The GNU \c | |
| 40 | .B ranlib\c | |
| 41 | \& program is another form of GNU \c | |
| 42 | .B ar\c | |
| 43 | \&; running | |
| 44 | \c | |
| 45 | .B ranlib\c | |
| 46 | \& is completely equivalent to executing `\|\c | |
| 47 | .B ar \-s\c | |
| 48 | \|'. | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | ||
| 51 | .SH "SEE ALSO" | |
| 52 | .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'" | |
| 53 | entry in | |
| 54 | .B | |
| 55 | info\c | |
| 56 | \&; | |
| 57 | .I | |
| 58 | The GNU Binary Utilities\c | |
| 59 | \&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); | |
| 60 | .BR ar "(" 1 ")," | |
| 61 | .BR nm "(" 1 ")." | |
| 62 | ||
| 63 | ||
| 64 | .SH COPYING | |
| 65 | Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
| 66 | .PP | |
| 67 | Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of | |
| 68 | this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice | |
| 69 | are preserved on all copies. | |
| 70 | .PP | |
| 71 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this | |
| 72 | manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the | |
| 73 | entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a | |
| 74 | permission notice identical to this one. | |
| 75 | .PP | |
| 76 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this | |
| 77 | manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified | |
| 78 | versions, except that this permission notice may be included in | |
| 79 | translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in | |
| 80 | the original English. |