ranlib

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I'll claim this is a bug, anyway.  ranlib uses the current directory
for temporary files.  Hence the following, when done by a non-privileged
user. 

	%cd /usr/lib
	%cp libm.a /tmp/libm.a
	%ranlib /tmp/libm.a
	can't create temporary

The reason this is a pain is that I have a bunch of software all compiled
on a NFS file system, and I want to let people NFS mount the file system
(but not with root access to it) and do a "make install" to install
the software on their machines.  So the user does a cd to the top of
the software tree on the NFS file system, and issues a "make install"
The makefile copies a library to the user's machine and tries to ranlib
it there, and fails.
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