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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.
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