# New Ticket Created by Andy Dougherty
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The use of ar rcs to build a library and reconstruct the symbol table
is non-portable. (Mac OS X, for example, doesn't support the
's' option to ar.)
A more portable -- but still Unix-specific -- approach is to run ar to
build the archive and then run ranlib. For many many modern systems,
ranlib is not needed. For those, the perl5 $Config{ranlib} entry ought to
be a simple ':' (i.e. a shell true command).
The following patch changes the main makefile to use ar and ranlib, just
as perl5 has successfully done for years.
diff -r -u parrot-orig/config/gen/makefiles/root.in
parrot-andy/config/gen/makefiles/root.in
--- parrot-orig/config/gen/makefiles/root.in Wed Aug 28 02:29:41 2002
+++ parrot-andy/config/gen/makefiles/root.in Wed Aug 28 16:33:42 2002
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
A = ${a}
RM_F = ${rm_f}
RM_RF = ${rm_rf}
-AR_CRS = ar crs
+AR_CR = ${ar} cr
+RANLIB = ${ranlib}
LD = ${ld}
LD_SHARED = ${ld_shared}
LD_OUT = ${ld_out}
@@ -189,7 +190,8 @@
# XXX Unix-only for now
blib/lib/libparrot$(A) : blib/lib $(O_DIRS) $(O_FILES)
- $(AR_CRS) $@ $(O_FILES)
+ $(AR_CR) $@ $(O_FILES)
+ $(RANLIB) $@ $(O_FILES)
blib/lib/libparrot$(SO) : blib/lib $(O_DIRS) $(O_FILES)
$(LD) $(LD_SHARED) $(LD_SHARED_FLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)
$(LD_OUT)blib/lib/libparrot$(SO) $(O_FILES) $(C_LIBS)
diff -r -u parrot-orig/config/init/data.pl parrot-andy/config/init/data.pl
--- parrot-orig/config/init/data.pl Tue Aug 27 01:03:31 2002
+++ parrot-andy/config/init/data.pl Wed Aug 28 16:32:51 2002
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@
test_prog => 'parrot',
rm_f => 'rm -f',
rm_rf => 'rm -rf',
+ ar => $Config{ar},
+ ranlib => $Config{ranlib},
make => $Config{make},
make_set_make => $Config{make_set_make},
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Physics
Lafayette College, Easton PA 18042
