Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker wrote:
>
> From: Ben Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> ben> I just discovered that GNU ranlib is the same as "ar s", and, what's
> ben> more, according to the man pages, once its been run once on a library it
> ben> never needs to be run again, coz ar automatically updates it. Arranging
> ben> for this to happen is a substantial boost to build speed - I guess
> ben> simply doing it once at the end of the run would do, especially as for
> ben> GNU archives it is an optional extra, so failure to do it doesn't really
> ben> hurt.
>
> Only problem with that is that we can't really assume we're in a GNU
> environment...
No, but we sure as hell know when we are!
Cheers,
Ben.
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