Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: cnews latest? Message-ID: <1990Nov3.232823.20671@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1990Oct28.223851.27977@zoo.toronto.edu> <1990Nov01.121822.14902@nstar.uucp> <1990Nov2.153328.12551@druid.uucp> <1990Nov3.191527.3010@erbe.se> Date: Sat, 3 Nov 90 23:28:23 GMT In article <1990Nov3.191527.3010@erbe.se> prc@erbe.se (Robert Claeson) writes: >I also had problems with this. It seems like "ranlib" is hardcoded >into some Makefiles... Actually, one: the Makefile for rna/lib. The Makefile for rna warns you about this. The rna stuff (our minimal user interface) needs a good working-over for better portability and compatibility with our configuration stuff. This is documented, although perhaps not as prominently as it really should be. There are uses of ranlib in other Makefiles, but those are vestigial code that is never invoked in a C News build. Yes, we test this stuff on a non-ranlib machine. -- "I don't *want* to be normal!" | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology "Not to worry." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com