Re: [ocamlsdl-devel] Re: patch to build ocamlsdl 0.7.1 on MacOs X

[<dan...@ep...>]

Le 24 janv. 05, =E0 21:10, Francesco Zappa Nardelli a =E9crit :

> Very odd.  On my system (MacOsX 10.3.7, gcc 3.3, ocaml 3.08.1), the=20
> command
>
> ./configure ; make
>
> runs ranlib on the generated .a files; for instance:
Same config, same behaviour so I don't provide you with the requested=20
config.log or make output.

You have to run ranlib _after_ the files were installed at the right=20
place because of the following bug described in man ranlib :

> BUGS
>        With the way libraries used to be created, errors were possible=20=

> if  the
>        library  was  modified  with  ar(1)  and  the table of contents=20=

> was not
>        updated by rerunning ranlib(1).  Thus the link editor, ld, =20
> warns  when
>        the  modification  date  of  a library is more recent than the=20=

> creation
>        date of its table of contents.  Unfortunately, this means that=20=

> you  get
>        the warning even if you only copy the library.

Maybe you didn't experience that because you didn't make install.

Cheers,

Daniel