The meaning of ran of ranlib

[Dimitry Andric]

On 11 Apr 2021, at 05:32, Ian Lance Taylor via Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 7:40 PM Peng Yu via Binutils
> <binutils@sourceware.org> wrote:
...
> The lorder and tsort programs are so old that modern Unix systems
> don't even include lorder anymore.  Using them was made obsolete by
> adding an index to archives.

Use of lorder and ranlib was only just recently removed from FreeBSD here:
https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=0e1e341b486cdf4769195ba1e5b3cb32e7387873

Not that it was really needed anymore of course, ar created indexes for years... :)

-Dimitry

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