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Date:      Mon, 16 Dec 1996 20:07:53 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
To:        CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org
Cc:        cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-user@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/tools/tools/tcl_bmake mkMakefile.sh 
Message-ID:  <199612161207.UAA17255@spinner.DIALix.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Dec 1996 03:53:58 PST." <199612161153.DAA21018@freefall.freebsd.org> 

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> peter       96/12/16 03:53:57
> 
>   Modified:    tools/tools/tcl_bmake  mkMakefile.sh
>   Log:
>   Reverse the tcl configure's decision to "disable" the use of ranlib since
>   it's wrong.  It "knows" that ranlib is not used on shared libraries, this
>   is not a valid assumption since it exports this definition to the world
>   via tclConfig.sh. :-(  Hence, things like expect (to be updated) fall over
>   because they were using ":" instead of "ranlib" on their static libraries.

Have I mentioned how much I HATE the tcl and tk build systems yet this 
week? (eg: tclConfig.sh, having to have private sources around for half 
the packages, etc)

-Peter





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