http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=49992
--- Comment #34 from Jack Howarth <howarth at nitro dot med.uc.edu> 2011-08-09 22:00:59 UTC --- (In reply to comment #33) > The patches are wrong, so, I don't favor them. The patch to fix this, is the > patch to either boost things to -fno-common, or to fix trim_filename. I am puzzled as to why you are so wedded to the use of 'ranlib -c' which was only introduce to solve an ancient linker bug. By this logic, we also need to revert ... Author: mrs Date: Fri Mar 19 10:19:52 2010 New Revision: 157563 URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/viewcvs?root=gcc&view=rev&rev=157563 Log: PR ada/42554 * configure.ac: Only pass -c to ranlib for darwin9 and earlier. * configure: Regenerate. Modified: trunk/ChangeLog trunk/configure trunk/configure.ac which you committed yourself. If you accept that r157563 was correct, then the proposed patch can be viewed as addressing http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42554#c15.