22 Mar
2005
22 Mar
'05
5:53 a.m.
Can't you run ranlib after install? It wouldn't be right for GHC to run ranlib, because the libraries might not be writable by the current user.
I don't see any problems with this. Anyone else see a problem? I'm guessing that's what most systems do.
nhc98 gets round the problem in a slightly different way: at installation time, just copy the .a archives preserving their datestamps. I use tar cf - libFoo.a | ( cd $DEST; tar xf - ) but a simpler cp -p libFoo.a $DEST would probably work as well, if tar is not available on the end machine. Remember you must still have run ranlib previously at /build/ time however. Regards, Malcolm