From: Arlindo Oliveira (aml@surf.Berkeley.EDU)
Date: 09/27/92


From: aml@surf.Berkeley.EDU (Arlindo Oliveira)
Subject: Begginer problems
Date: 28 Sep 1992 01:19:26 GMT


 I'm a new linux user and, therefore, have the right to make three
stupid question before I get flammed :-)

 After installing linux, GCC and X11 in a 486 with 8Meg without any
problems, I stumbled in what should have been a simple task, the
porting of my stuff from Ultrix to the linux box.

 When trying to make the package I got:

1 - Several errno 11 (try again) in GCC .The second try did indeed
    work, most of the time.

2 - After everything compiled smoothly, the ar program complained
    that:

> /usr//bin/ar: bad format (not an object file) in /home/aml/cad/mis/lib/libmisII.a(nodeutil.o)

 The names of the files it complains about change without any apparent
rule after I redo the one it complains about. The library I'm trying
to 'ar' is pretty big, about 3 Megabytes.

3 - When using a different approach (smaller libraries) I got:

>ld: malformatted header of archive member in ../lib/libmisII.a

 Again, this error shows up for different libraries, without any
special rule. When this error doesn't show up, the linker complains
that many symbols are not defined when they should be.

 I compiled it using GCC 2.2.2d without any special flags. The whole
stuff compiles without problems in my Ultrix machine.

 Any help in thie matter would be very much appreciated.

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Arlindo Oliveira

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