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ranlib(1)	      GNU Development Tools		ranlib(1)

NAME
       ranlib - generate index to archive.

SYNOPSIS
       ranlib [-v|-V] archive

DESCRIPTION
       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.

       An archive with such an index speeds up linking to the li-
       brary,  and  allows  routines  in the library to call each
       other without regard to their placement in the archive.

       The GNU ranlib program is another form of GNU ar;  running
       ranlib is completely equivalent to executing `ar -s'.

OPTIONS
       -v     Print the version number of ranlib and exit.

SEE ALSO
       `binutils' entry in info; The GNU Binary Utilities, Roland
       H. Pesch (October 1991); ar(1), nm(1).

COPYING
       Copyright (c) 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

       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.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified ver-
       sions  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.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute  translations
       of this manual into another language, under the above con-
       ditions for modified versions, except that this permission
       notice  may  be	included  in translations approved by the
       Free Software Foundation instead of in  the  original  En-
       glish.

cygnus support		 5 November 1991			1

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