Greetings,
Could you tell me how exactly you called ranlib to fix this problem?
I'm getting the same errors when compiling Acme SAC under leopard.

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On 11/1/07, David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 31, 2007 12:05 PM, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchovski@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > the problem comes from libmp: the machine-dependent files written in
> > assembly (/src/libmp/386/*-Darwin.s) are causing it (and they are all
> > broken, not just the one reported). it's beyond me to figure out why
> > at the moment. i tried a couple of things at random, but that's not a
> > way to fix a problem.
> >
> > all the functions defined therein have a replacement written in C in
> > the port/ directory of libmp. a workaround for now will be to fix the
> > mkfile in port/ to not look for the machine-dependent files (comment
> > out the test in the reduce script and let it just echo all file
> > names).
> >
> > next bug is all the way to venti:
> >
> > 9l -o o.buildindex buildindex.o libvs.a/Users/andrey/plan9/lib/libventi.a
> > ld: in libvs.a, archive has no table of contents
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >
> ranlib to the rescue... Got it run it explicitly on Darwin.  I think
> gcc lets you get away without it on linux.
>
> Dave
>