On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On May 11, 2005, Howard Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Can't you detect this just by whether "ar rs" is a valid command?
>> Since there's a relatively simple test that ensures we know what's >> going on, I'd rather not take a shortcut. Vendors could have >> introduced `s' switches to `ar' with different meanings before it was >> (sort-of?) standardized. > Surely that would cause other problems for libtool as well as most > other software packages out there. ?!? Libtool doesn't use the `s' switch when running ar, but it does use ranlib unconditionally. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org}
