Running ranlib after installation - okay or not?

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Another alternative would be to set RANLIB=: before configure if your 
> system does not need to ranlib anything.

Thanks for the nice hint - this is what the FreeBSD Ports Collection
now uses for the lang/gcc34 to lang/gcc41 ports. ;-)

On Fri, 2 Sep 2005, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> Doesn't matter, the solution I applied to GNU libtool cvs last night is
> probably most appropriate, i.e. chmod 644 before ranlib. I guess I'll look
> at gcc cvs over the weekend to figure out where that would go in your tree.

Cool, thanks!

Gerald