On 10/16/07, Bob Friesenhahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, NightStrike wrote: > > > If I place something inside the primary "_LIBRARIES", for instance > > libmine.a, when I do a make install after doing a make, make runs > > ranlib on that library. Why is ranlib run during make install instead > > of during make all? > > Many systems supporting ranlib insist that ranlib be run on the > library in its final location. Otherwise the library is ignored. I > don't know if that is the case for MinGW.
Is it bad to run ranlib multiple times? Once during make and again during make install?
