From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Mike Shaver Message-ID: <199708092253.SAA17511@neon.ingenia.ca> Subject: Re: your mail In-Reply-To: from Vincent Renardias at "Aug 9, 97 10:05:02 pm" Date: Sat, 9 Aug 1997 18:53:58 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: Vincent Renardias Cc: ralf@mailhost.uni-koblenz.de, linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19970809225358.TR8ixc2rVeBDY3u99_77hwhBcEV2VchGLgqYOATF8lo@z> Thus spake Vincent Renardias: > % mips-linux-gcc -o pwgen pwgen.o -lm > /usr/local/mips-linux/lib/libc.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no > index; run ranlib to add one > > running mips-linux-ranlib on the given file does not change anything. > (ie: still getting the same message) Did you use mips-linux-ar to create the archive? Many packages, I've discovered, don't listen to $AR in the environment, and I used to get that error all the time. Mike -- #> Mike Shaver (shaver@ingenia.com) Ingenia Communications Corporation #> Chief System Architect and Herder of Bits #> #> "Yoda say, `Just slap a little public key crypto into it' does not #> a secure system make." -- Marcus J. Ranum (mjr@clark.net)