I think Dirk was just showing me an example of how to branch on OS, which
would be relevant in the event that adding the 's' was harmful. In this
case it sounds like adding the 's' is the right path forward, which is the
advice I was hoping for. Thank you both!
On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 12:51 PM S
The point of my email was that
if [ `uname -s` = 'Darwin' ]; then ...
allows for a clean branch between the (new here) macOS behaviour and (old,
prior) behavior removing all concerns about 'portability' (per the Subject:).
You missed 100% of that.
Dirk
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This has nothing to do with Steven's question since he is creating a *static*
library whereas install_name_tool changes install name ID entry of a *dynamic*
library. Also the data.table example is effectively a no-op, because changing
the ID makes no difference as it can't be linked against dire
Steven,
no, I'm not aware of any negative effect, in fact having an index in the
archive is always a good idea - some linkers require it, some work faster with
it and at the worst the linker ignores it. And as far as I can tell all current
system "ar" implementations support the -s flag (even t
On 20 December 2023 at 11:10, Steven Scott wrote:
| The Boom package builds a library against which other packages link. The
| library is built using the Makevars mechanism using the line
|
| ${AR} rc $@ $^
|
| A user has asked me to change 'rc' to 'rcs' so that 'ranlib' will be run on
| the a
