[Ffmpeg-devel] [MacIntel] ranlib issue

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:08:53AM +0200, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 10:37:36PM +0200, Ulrich von Zadow wrote:
> >>Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>Anyway, I think I've fixed it portably and properly.  Report back if I
> >>>didn't.
> >>Yup - fixed :-).
> >
> >Have you tested on PPC as well?
> 
> I've linked an application to the static libraries on Intel and PPC Mac 
> OS X, so the bug itself is fixed. make test runs but has regressions in 
> snow which I assume are unrelated.
> 
> Re: full path info, I don't think OS X really puts full path info into a 
> static library. The error seems to be a bogus compatibility 'warning' 
> that prevents the library from being used. From the OS X libtool manual 
> page:
> 
> "
> BUGS
>        With  the way libraries used to be created, errors were possible
>        if the library was modified with ar(1) and the table of
>        contents was not updated by rerunning ranlib(1). Thus the link
>        editor, ld, warns when the modification date of a library is more
>        recent than the creation date of its table of contents.
>        Unfortunately, this means that you get the warning even if you
>        only copy the library.
> "

So is it just a warning or does it fail.  If it's just a warning I'm
tempted to remove the workaround.

Diego