hpux man page for ranlib

ranlib(1)						      General Commands Manual							 ranlib(1)

NAME
       ranlib - regenerate archive symbol table

SYNOPSIS
       archive ...

DESCRIPTION
       regenerates  the  symbol tables of the specified archives. It is equivalent to executing on each of the archives.  After using the modifier
       of 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

       Determines the locale category for native language, local customs and
	      coded character set in the absence of and other environment variables.  If is not specified or is set to the empty string, a default
	      of (see lang(5)) is used instead of

       Determines the values for all locale categories and has precedence over
	      and other environment variables.

       Determines the locale category for character handling functions.

       Determines the locale that should be used to affect the format
	      and contents of diagnostic messages written to standard error.

       Determines the locale category for numeric formatting.

       Determines the format and contents of date and time formatting.

       Determines the location of message catalogues for the processing
	      of

       If  any	internationalization  variable	contains an invalid setting, behaves as if all internationalization variables are set to See envi-
       ron(5).

       In addition, the following environment variable affects

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

SEE ALSO
   System Tools:
       ar(1)		 create archived libraries

   Miscellaneous:
       ar(4)		 archive format
       strip(1) 	 strip symbol and line number information from an object file

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