Re: ranlib question

[J.J. Merelo Guervos]

>>>>> "Nelson" == Nelson Minar <address@hidden> writes:

Hi:
    Nelson> Just curious - are SysV people without ranlib finding the
    Nelson> RANLIB variable in Makefile.conf a suitable way to
    Nelson> configure things? Does /bin/true ignore its arguments on
    Nelson> SysV? I sure hope so!

Actually, I don't use it. The makefile tries to run it, finds an
error, and goes on, since there is a dash at the beginning of the
line. What autoconf would do here is to set RANLIB to ":"; the
Makefile should check for that.

    Nelson> eventually so you don't have to edit anything by hand, but
    Nelson> autoconf isn't very good at finding some of the libraries
    Nelson> we need. Also, autoconf's real strength is in fixing

Theoretically, it should find anything. It's pretty good now (2.7), just
running autoscan creates a configure.in skeleton that you can fill in.

    Nelson> incompatibilities between various versions of libc, but
    Nelson> we're mostly aiming for portability that doesn't require
    Nelson> ifdefs for special OS versions.

As soon as you don't need to interact with the system too much, you
can... but if you need to send signals, for instance, all
compatibility goes to hell and beyond.

See ya

                                JJ