From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 5 04:23:49 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id EAA04770 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 04:23:49 -0800 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id EAA04764 for ; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 04:23:44 -0800 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA13654; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 13:20:21 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9-s1) with UUCP id NAA08859 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 13:20:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.9/8.6.9) id NAA12428 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 5 Mar 1995 13:17:25 +0100 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199503051217.NAA12428@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: What is _that_ ranlib for? To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 13:17:23 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 642 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, one thing that's been bothering me all the time: > make install Installing new math.h install -c -o bin -g bin -m 444 libm.a /usr/lib ranlib -t /usr/lib/libm.a ranlib: /usr/lib/libm.a: Permission denied *** Error code 1 Stop. What is _this_ ranlib for? Is it really needed? The library has just been made an ranlib'ed, but the above behaviour of `make install' brakes installation for non-root people (like ``bin'' in this case). (I hate to work as root, this is sorta self-protection.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)