On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: >>>> 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. >>> If you consider Darwin "modern", then that statement is not correct >>> as moving/copying an archive on darwin, requires ranlib to be run. > 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.
Ouch, now you got me scared. I already started testing a patch to remove the ranlib invocations that are part of the installation, but I'm afraid that level of configury work described above execeed what I feel confident hacking. Is anyone else going to give it a try, or should it just file a Bugzilla? Gerald
