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Re: [PATCH] fix PR ada/42554 by dropping -c from ranlib on darwin10 and later


On Feb 4, 2010, at 4:05 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 03:43:31PM +0100, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> 
>> Yes, it is quite easy to create a small reproducer.  I can send it to you (privately).
>> That's being said, I am not sure what can Apple do.
>> 
>> Tristan.
> 
> Tristan,
>    Why do you say that? My original understanding was that
> the ranlib '-c' option wasn't widely used and that some corner
> cases had appeared where their linker failed. I believe they
> do have a fix from Xcode 3.1 which was backed out for Xcode 3.2
> which they could revisit.

Interesting.  I thought that this issue appeared in Xcode 3.2 because of another issue.

> I assume that, like 10.5, 10.6 is 
> a certified unix so Apple really should support expected unix
> behaviors in the linker.

Yes, that's a good point (also I am not sure that UNIX specs go that far).

Let's see what Apple will do.

Tristan.


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