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Hi Kent, My guess is you are getting some new bit of info in your object files and your ranlib(1) is older and doesn't know about it. If you can send me the .o file or the output of otool(1) with the -hlv options on your object file I can take a look. Kev P.S. you can find out the version of ranlib(1) you have by running strings(1) on it and grep(1)'ing for the string

Ran into this today -- rebuilt the SVN Trunk for this morning of LLVM+CLANG. Now every time my builds try and make a library from .o files, ranlib complains about 'malformed object' files. This is with OS X 10.7.4, and the binary tools from XCode 4.4.1 ld -v @(#)PROGRAM:ld PROJECT:ld64-127.2 llvm version 3.0svn, from Apple Clang 3.0 (build 211.12) ranlib doesn't tell you what