> On systems that don't need it, invoke make with RANLIB=: and the shell will
> ignore it. (Combine the ar and ranlib commands one one line, as above, to
> avoid an unnecessary additional spawn of sh for the possibly unneeded ranlib
> invocation...)
Except that most make's are smart enough to call exec() directly when
there are no shell meta-chars in the command line. That feature goes
all the way back to the original Unix Version 7 make (and is why some
C News makefiles have a "spurious" trailing semicolon on some of their
command lines).
/r$, historian
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