| 1 | .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation |
| 2 | .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution |
| 3 | .TH ranlib 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools" |
| 4 | .de BP |
| 5 | .sp |
| 6 | .ti \-.2i |
| 7 | \(** |
| 8 | .. |
| 9 | |
| 10 | .SH NAME |
| 11 | ranlib \- generate index to archive. |
| 12 | |
| 13 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| 14 | .hy 0 |
| 15 | .na |
| 16 | .B ranlib \c |
| 17 | .RB "[\|" \-v | \-V "\|]" |
| 18 | .I archive\c |
| 19 | \& |
| 20 | .ad b |
| 21 | .hy 1 |
| 22 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| 23 | .B ranlib |
| 24 | generates an index to the contents of an archive, and |
| 25 | stores it in the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by a |
| 26 | member of an archive that is a relocatable object file. |
| 27 | .PP |
| 28 | You may use |
| 29 | .RB ` "nm \-s" ' |
| 30 | or |
| 31 | .RB ` "nm \-\-print-armap" ' |
| 32 | to list this index. |
| 33 | .PP |
| 34 | An archive with such an index speeds up linking to the library, and |
| 35 | allows routines in the library to call each other without regard to |
| 36 | their placement in the archive. |
| 37 | .PP |
| 38 | The GNU |
| 39 | .B ranlib |
| 40 | program is another form of GNU |
| 41 | .BR ar ; |
| 42 | running |
| 43 | .B ranlib |
| 44 | is completely equivalent to executing |
| 45 | .RB ` "ar \-s" '. |
| 46 | |
| 47 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 48 | .TP |
| 49 | .B \-v |
| 50 | Print the version number of |
| 51 | .B ranlib |
| 52 | and exit. |
| 53 | |
| 54 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| 55 | .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'" |
| 56 | entry in |
| 57 | .B |
| 58 | info\c |
| 59 | \&; |
| 60 | .I |
| 61 | The GNU Binary Utilities\c |
| 62 | \&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); |
| 63 | .BR ar "(" 1 ")," |
| 64 | .BR nm "(" 1 ")." |
| 65 | |
| 66 | |
| 67 | .SH COPYING |
| 68 | Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| 69 | .PP |
| 70 | Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of |
| 71 | this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice |
| 72 | are preserved on all copies. |
| 73 | .PP |
| 74 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this |
| 75 | manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the |
| 76 | entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a |
| 77 | permission notice identical to this one. |
| 78 | .PP |
| 79 | Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this |
| 80 | manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified |
| 81 | versions, except that this permission notice may be included in |
| 82 | translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in |
| 83 | the original English. |