| .\" Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation |
| .\" See section COPYING for conditions for redistribution |
| .TH ranlib 1 "5 November 1991" "cygnus support" "GNU Development Tools" |
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| .ti \-.2i |
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| .SH NAME |
| ranlib \- generate index to archive. |
| |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .hy 0 |
| .na |
| .B ranlib \c |
| .RB "[\|" \-v | \-V "\|]" |
| .I archive\c |
| \& |
| .ad b |
| .hy 1 |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B ranlib |
| generates an index to the contents of an archive, and |
| stores it in the archive. The index lists each symbol defined by a |
| member of an archive that is a relocatable object file. |
| .PP |
| You may use |
| .RB ` "nm \-s" ' |
| or |
| .RB ` "nm \-\-print-armap" ' |
| to list this index. |
| .PP |
| 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. |
| .PP |
| The GNU |
| .B ranlib |
| program is another form of GNU |
| .BR ar ; |
| running |
| .B ranlib |
| is completely equivalent to executing |
| .RB ` "ar \-s" '. |
| |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-v |
| Print the version number of |
| .B ranlib |
| and exit. |
| |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .RB "`\|" binutils "\|'" |
| entry in |
| .B |
| info\c |
| \&; |
| .I |
| The GNU Binary Utilities\c |
| \&, Roland H. Pesch (October 1991); |
| .BR ar "(" 1 ")," |
| .BR nm "(" 1 ")." |
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| |
| .SH COPYING |
| Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
| .PP |
| Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of |
| this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice |
| are preserved on all copies. |
| .PP |
| Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this |
| manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the |
| entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a |
| permission notice identical to this one. |
| .PP |
| Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this |
| manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified |
| versions, except that this permission notice may be included in |
| translations approved by the Free Software Foundation instead of in |
| the original English. |