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        !            18: .\"     @(#)ranlib.1   6.4 (Berkeley) 7/24/90
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        !            20: .Dd July 24, 1990
        !            21: .Dt RANLIB 1
        !            22: .BSD 4.4
        !            23: .Sh NAME
        !            24: .Nm ranlib
        !            25: .Nd preprocess archives for efficient linking
        !            26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
        !            27: .Nm ranlib
        !            28: .Op Fl t
        !            29: .Ar archive_file ...
        !            30: .Sh DESCRIPTION
        !            31: .Nm Ranlib
        !            32: is a preprocessor for the loading utility
        !            33: .Xr ld 1 .
        !            34: .Nm Ranlib
        !            35: creates a randomized library from the given
        !            36: .Ar archive_file
        !            37: with
        !            38: the file entry named
        !            39: .Sy \&__.SYMDEF
        !            40: prepended.
        !            41: The
        !            42: .Sy \&__.SYMDEF
        !            43: file entry is a dictionary the loader can detect and interpret
        !            44: to resolve external references at link time.
        !            45: To generate the library, the
        !            46: .Xr ar 1
        !            47: utility is used.
        !            48: .Tw 8n
        !            49: .Tp Fl t
        !            50: Ranlib only "touches" the archives and does not modify them.
        !            51: This is useful after copying an archive
        !            52: or using the
        !            53: .Fl t
        !            54: option of
        !            55: .Xr make  1
        !            56: in order to avoid having
        !            57: .Xr ld  1
        !            58: complain about
        !            59: an
        !            60: .Dq out of date
        !            61: symbol table.
        !            62: .Tp
        !            63: .Sh SEE ALSO
        !            64: .Xr ar 1 ,
        !            65: .Xr ld 1 ,
        !            66: .Xr lorder 1 ,
        !            67: .Xr make 1 ,
        !            68: .Xr nm 1
        !            69: .Sh HISTORY
        !            70: .Nm Ranlib
        !            71: appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.
        !            72: .Sh BUGS
        !            73: The archiving is a separate process and phase
        !            74: errors may occur (see the
        !            75: .Fl t
        !            76: option above).

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