ranlib(1)ranlib(1)Nameranlib - convert archives to random libraries
Syntaxranlib archive...
Description
The command converts each archive to a form which the loader can load
more rapidly. The command does this by adding a table of contents
called _.SYMDEF to the beginning of the archive. the command uses to
reconstruct the archive, so that sufficient temporary file space must
be available in the file system which contains the current directory.
Restrictions
Because generation of a library by and randomization of the library by
are separate processes, phase errors are possible. The loader, warns
when the modification date of a library is more recent than the cre‐
ation date of its dictionary; but this means that you get the warning
even if you only copy the library.
See Alsoar(1), ld(1), lorder(1)
VAX ranlib(1)