From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 3 14:11:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA08554 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:11:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports) Received: from messiah.cableinet.net ([194.117.157.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA08536 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 14:10:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from i.vaudrey@cableinet.co.uk) Received: (qmail 1786 invoked from network); 3 Nov 1997 23:12:52 -0000 Received: from lions.cableinet.net (193.38.113.5) by messiah with SMTP; 3 Nov 1997 23:12:52 -0000 Received: from nemkoltd.nildram.co.uk (usr148-cro.cableinet.co.uk [194.117.149.158]) by lions.cableinet.net (950413.SGI.8.6.12/951211.SGI) via SMTP id WAA05997 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:09:31 GMT Received: by nemkoltd.nildram.co.uk with Microsoft Mail id <01BCE8A5.334159E0@nemkoltd.nildram.co.uk>; Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:09:48 -0000 Message-ID: <01BCE8A5.334159E0@nemkoltd.nildram.co.uk> From: Ian Vaudrey To: "'ports@freebsd.org'" Subject: Ranlib Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 22:09:05 -0000 Encoding: 11 TEXT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm working on a port of a library, and there's something I'd like explained if possible. Some existing library ports include a line @exec ranlib %D/%F in the PLIST. Why is that? I would've thought that this was unnecessary: ranlib just builds a symbol table doesn't it? If the library was ranlibbed when it was built, the copy in the package already has a symbol table - or am I missing something? The reason I'd like clarification on this is that the @exec line seems to break pkg_delete, so I'd like to lose it if it really isn't necessary. - Ian