------- Comment #3 from jay dot krell at cornell dot edu 2010-05-30 08:55 ------- Hm. There are more. Perhaps better to not compile/lib/link files that can be easily predicted to have no symbols? Maybe just ignore it. Maybe get Apple to change ranlib. Maybe they already have.
ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_trampoline.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_ctors.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_powitf2.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_multc3.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_divtc3.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixtfdi.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixunstfdi.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floatditf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floatunditf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixsfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixdfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixxfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixtfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixunssfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixunsdfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixunsxfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_fixunstfti.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floattisf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floattidf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floattixf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floattitf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floatuntisf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floatuntidf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floatuntixf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(_floatuntitf.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(darwin-64.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: ../.././gcc/libgcc.a(unwind-sjlj.o) has no symbols -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=44308