http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=48480
--- Comment #2 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-04-06 13:42:55 UTC --- (In reply to comment #1) > > On x86_64-apple-darwin10 the test staticrootslib.lo in the boehm-gc suite > > fails > > due to the following warnings > > > > Excess errors: > > /usr/bin/ranlib: file: .libs/libstaticrootslib.a(backgraph.o) has no symbols > [...] > > AFAICT these warnings are rather usual (I see them with 'make install' for a > > lot of libraries) and they seem harmless. > > Indeed, and they should be already pruned in > boehm-gc/testsuite/lib/boehm-gc.exp (boehm-gc-dg-prune). That regexp > doesn't account for a path to ranlib since that wasn't included in the > message Iain Sandoe sent me when first testing my patch. indeed, the path is not present for powerpc-darwin9 ;)