http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49992
--- Comment #23 from Iain Sandoe <iains at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-08-09 14:49:19 UTC --- (In reply to comment #22) > or more correctly just... > > Index: gcc/configure.ac > =================================================================== > --- gcc/configure.ac (revision 177598) > +++ gcc/configure.ac (working copy) > @@ -821,11 +821,8 @@ gcc_AC_PROG_LN_S > ACX_PROG_LN($LN_S) > AC_PROG_RANLIB > case "${host}" in > -*-*-darwin*) > - # By default, the Darwin ranlib will not treat common symbols as > - # definitions when building the archive table of contents. Other > - # ranlibs do that; pass an option to the Darwin ranlib that makes > - # it behave similarly. > +*-*-darwin[[3-9]]*) > +# ranlib before Darwin10 requires the -c flag to look at common symbols. > ranlib_flags="-c" > ;; > *) well, I don't see that darwin 9 does anything different from darwin 10 in this respect (and I wonder if darwin 8 does either). and ... watch out for the first case matching all darwin ;-) and the second never firing.