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    could not read symbols: Archive has no index?

    Hi,

    I've successfully build the OpenNL into libnl.a and put it to /usr/lib under Ubuntu 7.04

    However, when I try to make a program that uses it, the linker output the following error:

    /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../lib/libnl.a: could not read symbols: Archive has no index; run ranlib to add one
    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

    So, what may be the problem? I've googling around but no help...

    Thanks in advance!

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    Did you try to do "ranlin libnl.a" [save a copy of libnl.a first!]

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    I've tried ranlib libnl.a, but no output, no help... still the same error message when I try to compile the program using it.

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    What about doign "file libnl.a" - maybe you have the wrong version of the file for your architecture, or some such [I've downloaded the wrong version of a file once or twice, and also had bad links so that I got the wrong version even when I clicked the right links].

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    libnl.a: current ar archive

    Is this correct?

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    I had hoped that it would give some more info.

    Perhaps you cand download the source and build it yourself, see how that goes?

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    Actually this .a file is build by myself from the source

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    Perhaps "ranlib -a" or "ranlib -s" will do what you want - I just looked up ranlib, and those make sense for the problem you see...

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