Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!telly!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Subject: Re: cnews latest?
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 90 00:43:38 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Nov5.004338.24212@druid.uucp>
References: <1990Nov2.153328.12551@druid.uucp> <1990Nov04.010412.488@nstar.uucp>

In article <1990Nov04.010412.488@nstar.uucp> Larry Snyder writes:
>darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes:
>>file called ranlib and made it executable.  Now ranlib with any arguments
>>does nothing and returns a successful status.  C News compiled fine after
>>that.
>
>how did the resulting postnews and readnews turn out?
>

I didn't compile them.  I used rn and Pnews instead but what makes you think
that there would be any effect?  If your development environment is such
that ranlib is unnecessary then creating a null command called ranlib has
absolutely no effect except to satisfy the makefile.  The purpose of ranlib
is to put the object modules in an archive in order such that no module
references another that is earlier to it in the file.  This is necessary
for linkers that make a single pass through the archive.  If a development
system (Such as my SVR3.2 ESIX Rel D and GNU C) has a multiple pass linker
then the only problem is perhaps a small speed hit during the link phase.
If not then you probably have ranlib anyway and so there is no problem
to begin with.

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