Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> In building various Linux things from source on Mac, I've run into the
> "archive has no table of contents" problem several times. The fix is
> invariably to go and stick ranlib after each ar.
>
> Now I wonder, why don't we replace /usr/bin/ar with a wrapper calling
> the ar and then ranlib if it's an ar c? No more stupid ranlib
> peppering then!
Make a patch which adds a 's' to the ar arguments and ask upstream to
apply it. Running 'ar s' is equivalent to ranlib.
Common usage is:
ar rcs libfoo.a $LIBS
> And what's wrong with Macs anyways? Why do we have to do it where
> Linux folks are happy without it?
Mac OS X is based on BSD, not GNU/Linux. Welcome to the UNIX world!
Rainer
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