binutils/ranlib.1

   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"
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   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
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  81 versions, except that this permission notice may be included in
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  83 the original English.