Running ranlib after installation - okay or not?

[Shantonu Sen]

If you do change how this is implemented in the config* files, please
make sure that you still support cross compiling to Darwin. In that
case, the runtime libraries for the target would still run into this  
issue,
because you'd be using the Darwin ranlib, even on a Linux build/host.

Shantonu

On Aug 31, 2005, at 12:28 PM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> Still, all this really means is that we should be host specific when
> deciding whether or not to run ranlib.
>
> In fact we are already host specific as to what flags we use.  On
> Darwin we use -c, which we do not use on any other system.  Maybe we
> should remove AC_PROG_RANLIB from configure.ac, and add something to
> config.host instead.
>
> Except that probably this has to get into libtool somehow or
> something.  Hmmm.
>
> Ian