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Re: RANLIB_TEST in gcc/Makefile?

To: aoliva at redhat dot com
Subject: Re: RANLIB_TEST in gcc/Makefile?
From: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 01:51:05 -0500
CC: lauras at softhome dot net, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
References: <3A525C2D.B1CFED47@softhome.net> <or3df19lsu.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>


> The only reason I can think of is that someone might want to run make
> RANLIB=/path/to/ranlib and except RANLIB_TEST to reflect the change.
> But I wouldn't worry too much about it.  Presumably, we should have
> RANLIB looked for are SUBSTed in the Makefile by configure, just like
> the rest of the world does.
> 
> DJ (and anybody else), does this match your opinion?

The only thing I can think of is to use a just-built ranlib, if
available, but I can't see why ranlib is special.

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