Archive library breakage on standard UNIX systems with ranlib

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep  2, 2000, msokolov@ivan.Harhan.ORG (Michael Sokolov) wrote:

> The current libtool, both -rHEAD and -rmulti-language-branch, ever
> since 1999- 10-01 in fact, causes catastrophic breakage on standard
> UNIX systems on which archives created by ar MUST be ranlib'ed
> before ld can use them at all (at least 4.0BSD through 4.3BSD, and
> lots of others I'm sure). I have traced the breakage down to this
> change:

Please try the patch in the attached message.  I'm checking it in the
libtool CVS tree right now, and I'll update libtool in the binutils
and GCC CVS trees shortly thereafter.