On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:51:49PM -0400, Stuart Cassoff wrote: > I have a couple of ports that run ranlib lib.a after installing lib.a and I'm > wondering if that is necessary? > I get the impression that it used to be for some systems a long time ago but > not anymore.
Are they running ranlib again, or are they running ranlib as the first time ? Ranlib is still necessary as an optimization.
