On 06/09/15 04:09, Marc Espie wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2015 at 01:51:49PM -0400, Stuart Cassoff wrote: >> I have a couple of ports that run ranlib lib.a after installing lib.a and >> I'm wondering if that is necessary? >> I get the impression that it used to be for some systems a long time ago but >> not anymore. > > Are they running ranlib again, or are they running ranlib as the first time ? > > Ranlib is still necessary as an optimization. >
Running ranlib a second time, post-install: cc,ar,ranlib,install,ranlib.
