ranlib is required on Darwin after changing the timestamp of the
archive.
Shantonu
On Aug 31, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
Gerald Pfeifer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
We currently perform the following sequence of commands as part of
the
installation (-m 444 being the default on current FreeBSD systems).
install -m 444 ./libgcc.a /prefix/lib/gcc/i386-portbld-
freebsd5.4/3.4.5/gcc/i386-portbld-freebsd5.4/3.4.5/
ranlib /prefix/lib/gcc/i386-portbld-freebsd5.4/3.4.5/gcc/i386-
portbld-freebsd5.4/3.4.5/libgcc.a
This works fine when running as root, but when doing an
installation as
user, installation fails:
ranlib: unable to copy file '/prefix/lib/gcc/i386-portbld-
freebsd5.4/3.4.5/gcc/i386-portbld-freebsd5.4/3.4.5/libgcc.a'
reason: Permission denied
gmake[2]: *** [install] Error 1
I believe installing libraries with permissions 444 ought to be okay,
as is for ranlib to refuse working on files which are not writeable.
Does anyone disagree (and if not, have suggestions how to address
this
in GCC)?
ranlib is basically never required on a modern system. It is really
only needed if the archive is built with the S option to ar.
So I think the best way to address this is to not run ranlib.
Ian
