/usr/bin/ld: truncated or malformed archive: /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a

[Robin Hankin]

Hi

I just downloaded  gmp-4.2 and installed it on my machine, MacOSX 10.4.5

./configure
make
make check
sudo make install


all went well (no errors or warnings AFAICS).

But I couldn't compile the example program given in the INSTALL file:

octopus:~% gcc -g example.c -lgmp
/usr/bin/ld: truncated or malformed archive: /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a  
(ranlib structures in table of contents extends past the end of the  
table of contents, can't load from it)
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
octopus:~%


hope this helps



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Robin Hankin
Uncertainty Analyst
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