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| author | Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-10-09 05:19:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Evans <bde@FreeBSD.org> | 1995-10-09 05:19:27 +0000 |
| commit | 669c4b246c4e46fcc054557efbb378dd47f9283d (patch) | |
| tree | b5e00417631b89ed3bc55da125e79b8a8208ad2d /usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1 | |
| parent | 8292bf75432539d98ef285c97ca67e541127e065 (diff) | |
| download | src-669c4b246c4e46fcc054557efbb378dd47f9283d.tar.gz src-669c4b246c4e46fcc054557efbb378dd47f9283d.zip | |
Don't claim that `ranlib -t' is useful.
Our ld is derived from gnu ld which doesn't check the timestamp on
__.SYMDEF. gnu ld is designed to work with gnu ar which doesn't
even have a ranlib option (gnu ar updates __.SYMDEF automatically
if __.SYMDEF already exists, so gnu ld expects __.SYMDEF to be up
to date if it exists).
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=11346
Diffstat (limited to 'usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1 | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1 b/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1 index bd95cd27ac60..c5bdf37a9b4d 100644 --- a/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1 +++ b/usr.bin/ranlib/ranlib.1 @@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ The options are as follows: .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl t Set the modification time of the __.SYMDEF file. -This time is compared by the loader with the modification time of the +Some loaders (but not the FreeBSD one) +compared this time with the modification time of the archive to verify that the table is up-to-date with respect to the archive. If the modification time has been changed without any change to the |