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When I compile this program, I get the error:
ranlib: not
found
make: *** [getopt.a] Error
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Am I missing something?

~ Jeff

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Jeffrey O L Jordan <jljordan@wans.net> wrote:

When I compile this program, I get the error:
ranlib: not
found
make: *** [getopt.a] Error
1

Am I missing something?

ranlib doesn’t exist under QNX.

Looks like the makefile doesn’t have a QNX configuration in it.

Old Unixes used to have a 2-stage process for generating a library:
ar - added things to a library file
ranlib - indexed the file, so things could link against it.

Under QNX, wlib does it all in one shot, and ar is a sym-link to wlib.

You have two choices – either modify the makefile, or create a “fake”
ranlib.

Of the two, creating a “fake” ranlib is probably the easier – a couple
good choices for ranlib are /bin/true or /bin/touch.

(e.g. cp /bin/true /bin/ranlib)

-David

QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com

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Actually, there is a patch. I had to download a “patch”
utility and install it.

Now I have another problem with the install. I’m getting the
error:

make: *** No rule to make target auto-str.c', needed by auto-str.o’. Stop.

I’ve looked and cannot find the file ‘auto-str.c’. The only files
that have references to auto-str.c are Makefiles.

~ Jeff

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David Gibbs wrote:

Jeffrey O L Jordan <> jljordan@wans.net> > wrote:
When I compile this program, I get the error:
ranlib: not
found
make: *** [getopt.a] Error
1

Am I missing something?

ranlib doesn’t exist under QNX.

Looks like the makefile doesn’t have a QNX configuration in it.

Old Unixes used to have a 2-stage process for generating a library:
ar - added things to a library file
ranlib - indexed the file, so things could link against it.

Under QNX, wlib does it all in one shot, and ar is a sym-link to wlib.

You have two choices – either modify the makefile, or create a “fake”
ranlib.

Of the two, creating a “fake” ranlib is probably the easier – a couple
good choices for ranlib are /bin/true or /bin/touch.

(e.g. cp /bin/true /bin/ranlib)

-David

QNX Training Services
dagibbs@qnx.com

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Jeffrey O L Jordan <jljordan@wans.net> wrote:

Now I have another problem with the install. I’m getting the
error:

make: *** No rule to make target auto-str.c', needed by auto-str.o’. Stop.

I’ve looked and cannot find the file ‘auto-str.c’. The only files
that have references to auto-str.c are Makefiles.

Then your source package is missing some files, or you Makefile isn’t correct.

If you need more information on how to modify your makefile check out
http://www.gnu.org/manual/make-3.79.1/html_node/make_toc.html

-Adam
amallory@qnx.com