ranlib.1 (2010 09)

ranlib(1) ranlib(1)

NAME

ranlib - regenerate archive symbol table

SYNOPSIS

ranlib archive ...

DESCRIPTION

ranlib regenerates the symbol tables of the speciﬁed archives. It is equivalent to executing

ar qs

archive on each of the archives. After using the

z modiﬁer of ar, the symbol table of an archive must

be regenerated before it can be used.

EXTERNAL INFLUENCES

Environment Variables

The following internationalization variables affect the execution of

ranlib:

LANG

Determines the locale category for native language, local customs and coded character set in the

absence of LC_ALL and other LC_* environment variables. If

LANG is not speciﬁed or is set to

the empty string, a default of

C (see lang (5)) is used instead of

LANG.

LC_ALL

Determines the values for all locale categories and has precedence over LANG and other LC_*

environment variables.

LC_CTYPE

Determines the locale category for character handling functions.

LC_MESSAGES

Determines the locale that should be used to affect the format and contents of diagnostic messages

written to standard error.

LC_NUMERIC

Determines the locale category for numeric formatting.

LC_TIME

Determines the format and contents of date and time formatting.

NLSPATH

Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing of LC_MESSAGES.

If any internationalization variable contains an invalid setting,

ranlib behaves as if all internationali-

zation variables are set to

C. See environ (5).

In addition, the following environment variable affects

ranlib:

TMPDIR

Speciﬁes a directory for temporary ﬁles (see tmpnam (3S)).