29 Dec
2018
29 Dec
'18
10:49 p.m.
On Sat, Dec 29, 2018, 11:27 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com wrote:
On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 11:59 PM Warren Toomey <wkt(a)tuhs.org> 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
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.
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