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Re: Running ranlib after installation - okay or not?


Andrew Pinski <pinskia@physics.uc.edu> writes:

> On Aug 31, 2005, at 2:02 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> writes:
> >
> >> Does anyone disagree (and if not, have suggestions how to address this
> >> in GCC)?
> >
> > ranlib is basically never required on a modern system.  It is really
> > only needed if the archive is built with the S option to ar.
> >
> > So I think the best way to address this is to not run ranlib.
> 
> If you consider Darwin "modern", then that statement is not correct
> as moving/copying an archive on darwin, requires ranlib to be run.

Gah.  I keep forgetting about that.  Sorry.

Ian


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