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Date:      Tue, 04 Nov 1997 02:37:35 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        Ian Vaudrey <i.vaudrey@cableinet.co.uk>
Cc:        "'ports@freebsd.org'" <ports@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Ranlib 
Message-ID:  <8360.878639855@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Nov 1997 08:59:06 GMT." <01BCE901.22C66E00@nemkoltd.nildram.co.uk> 

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> I can see why it was requested, but in some cases it really is a pain.
> Please, please, please add an override flag. After all, I thought it
> was part of the Unix philosophy to allow me to shoot myself in the foot
> whenever I want :)

Understood. :-)

Let me look into that.

> -t	Set the modification time of the __.SYMDEF file. Some loaders
> 	(but not the FreeBSD one) compared this time with the modifica-
> 	tion time of the archive to verify that the table is up-to-date
> 	with respect to the archive. If the modification time has been
> 	changed without any change to the archive (for example, by a
> 	cp(1)), the -t option can be used to ``touch'' the modification
> 	time so that it appears that the table is up-to-date. This is
> 	also useful after using the -t option of make(1).
> 
> So it looks like the @exec ranlib line should really be @exec ranlib -t,
> but for FreeBSD it is *not* really needed anyway? Is that correct?

Looks like it to me!  I think we can just nuke those @exec ranlib
lines as unnecessary waste, and perhaps portlint can even be extended
to look for it. :)

					Jordan



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