Re: INSTALL_DATA, ranlib, and tcl-related shared libraries

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 01:37:17PM -0700, Syd Polk wrote:
> At 12:14 PM 4/20/01 -0700, 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.
> >
> >Keith
> 
> Thanks for looking further in depth into this patch. I agree with what you 
> are doing here.

I'm glad this is finally getting examined by the experts, instead of just me.
:-)  In any case, the s/INSTALL_DATA/INSTALL_PROGRAM/ change is unrelated
to the RANLIB issue and should still be installed.


Phil

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