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Re: INSTALL_DATA, ranlib, and tcl-related shared libraries
- To: Keith Seitz <keiths at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: INSTALL_DATA, ranlib, and tcl-related shared libraries
- From: Mo DeJong <mdejong at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 12:20:47 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: Syd Polk <spolk at redhat dot com>, Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>, insight at sources dot redhat dot com
On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Keith Seitz wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Syd Polk wrote:
>
> > I approve these changes. Fernando or Keith, can you check them in?
>
> Ummm... May I make one small recommendation? :-)
>
> The real reason this is failing to work is because the toplevel Makefile
> is passing RANLIB down. This fails because our toolchains are,
> historically, always built static, but someone always tries to change
> them (until he runs into a sun4 or something).
>
> Anyway, the easier fix is to just ignore what we're passed and take
> whatever configure gives us.
I think the Makefile in the parent dir should just avoid passing
these variables down. I am running into this same problem as
part of the Tcl/Tk 8.3 and Itcl 3.2 upgrade work, we need
a better fix than just changing the name of the variable in
the Makefile.
Mo DeJong
Red Hat Inc