I was getting this error re-building mlvm on MacOS 10.5.8.
ld reports the following error rebuilding libjava.dylib:
libfdlibm.i586.a, archive has no table of contents
ar (the archive tool) was not building the catalog file for the archive because
the environmental variable COMMAND_MODE was set
to 'legacy'.
This occurred because I recently switched from the Mac OS X Terminal program to
iTerm because of iTerms much better handling
ofcolored and styled fonts.
Without another action COMMAND_MODElagacy when starting up a console shell on
Mac OS X using iTerm.
I think most people use Terminal.app in Mac OS X so aren't affected by this
problem.
In any case I updated my mlvm build script here: http://gist.github.com/243072
to change the COMMAND_MODE to unix2003 if it is
set to legacy
references:
http://old.nabble.com/Why-ar-doesn't-call-ranlib-on-Mac--td22319721.html
