In the For What It is Worth department:
On Solaris 2.7, at least, /usr/ccs/bin/ranlib is a shell script that just
does an exit. While firing up a shell script is not zero overhead, it's
still less than a real ranlib pass on a large library.
Ideally, this would be the situation on all platforms, i.e. if ranlib is
unnecessary, then either it doesn't exist or is bound to a trivial script or
program. Of course, one can't assume the ideal situation.
Gary
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