Running ranlib after installation - okay or not?

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Peter O'Gorman wrote:
| The problem is that libtool tries to run ranlib after install and that
| ranlib can fail if the library is not writable?

[crosspost - beware - for context see
<http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2005-08/msg00937.html>]

When I look more closely at this, I see in libtool.m4:
old_postinstall_cmds='chmod 644 $oldlib'

and a little later:
old_postinstall_cmds="\$RANLIB \$oldlib~$old_postinstall_cmds"

Should that be:
old_postinstall_cmds="$old_postinstall_cmds~\$RANLIB \$oldlib"
??

Peter
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