29 Dec
2018
29 Dec
'18
11:48 p.m.
Yes.
Sent from my PDP-7 Running UNIX V0 expect things to be almost but not quite.
On Dec 29, 2018, at 11:49 AM, Warner Losh
<imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 11:27 AM Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com wrote:
But wasn't it tsort that did the heavy lifting to get things in order?
ar c foo.a `tsort *.o`
Ranlib just made it fast by adding an index..
Warner
> ᐧ On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:59 PM Warren Toomey
<wkt(a)tuhs.org> wrote:
Yes, order will be important, I forgot. There's no ranlib in v6 :-)
Good point. I've forgotten as to where and when did ranlib appear in the dev
stream? Was it research, UCB or somewhere else like on the Harvard Tape?
Just now, I took a quick peak at the 1BSD archive on TUHS.org but the subdirtectories are
all packed up as v6 ar archives (cont.a files) - i.e. when somebody converted the BSD stp
tape to a tar image they just wrote the archive and then rewrote it as a compressed tar
ball. So I will take a little more work to unpack them, ensure the dates are 1978 based.
(which I'll do at some point and offer them back to Warren).
But I do remember when ranlib showing up it was such a win for fixing C compiler (well
linkage) errors. I could have sworn, we had it was before V7, so maybe it came with the
Typesetter C or UNIX/TS stuff.