Re: [Apachetoolbox-devel] Re: mod_watch in .58: improved (bin attached)

[Toni M. <su...@oe...>]

Hi Kevin,

On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:31:19AM -0700, Kevin J. Menard, Jr. wrote:
> Toni Mueller wrote:
> > The last patch I sent in was
> > missing a ranlib command, rendering the generated library  rather
> > useless.
> Pardon my ignorance, but what is ranlib really useful for?  I read the 
> man page, and it mentioned speed ups in library access, but is a) this 
> necessary, and b) how marginal of a speed up are we speaking?

well, ranlib generates an index... although I don't fully understand
it and am not very current in C programming anymore, I first forgot
it since I didn't know it was important. The result was that I was
getting unresolved symbols at the link stage despite seeing the
correct symbols in the library. Then I contacted the author of that
module who suggested using ranlib on the generated library, which
made it work.

So I regard the ranlib command as mandatory...


Best,
--Toni++

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