Re: Install method

[H. S. Teoh]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 03:34:19PM +0100, Perochon Sebastien wrote:
> > Have you tried using the Library method instead of "Module"?
> 
> The Library method is using "ar" and "ranlib" to create the library file.
> The makefile I'm trying to convert in Cons was just using "ld" to create the
> '.a' file.
> Since I don't know (yet ;-)) the differences between those binaries, I
> didn't use the Library method.

Doesn't ld run ar and ranlib? Or is that something totally different that
I forgot about ever since I started using the Library method? :-)

[snip]
> So considering that I'm now using only the Library method (following your
> advices), I'm facing a new problem:
> 
> 
> Install $env 'c:/', 'mylib.a';
> 
> This doesn't work (=doesn't copy) the 'mylib.a' file to the destination
> directory if that directory is not in the tree starting from the value of
> '#'.
[snip]

Hmm, I don't know about that one. I'll have to let other people on the
list answer that. (Although it seems strangely quiet around here
recently...)


T

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