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20000630: IRIX 6.5 build problem: no ranlib

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  • Subject: 20000630: IRIX 6.5 build problem: no ranlib
  • Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 12:49:59 -0600
Harper,

>Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 14:36:27 -0400
>From: "H. Simmons" <address@hidden>
>Organization: Florida State University
>To: Steve Emmerson <address@hidden>
>Subject: Re: 20000630: IRIX 6.5 build problem: no ranlib
>Keywords: 200006301713.e5UHDkT13177

In the above message, you wrote:

> Thanks for your reply. I followed your advice. The following is what I do:
> 
>     setenv CC "/bin/c89 -64"
>     setenv CPPFLAGS -DNDEBUG
>     setenv CFLAGS -O
>     setenv FC "/bin/f77 -64"
>     setenv FFLAGS -O
>     setenv CXX "/bin/CC -64"
>     setenv RANLIB :
> 
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
> 
> the configure output says: 
> 
> checking for ranlib... (cached) ranlib
> 
> 
> I have no idea what this means.

The "(cached)" in the above means that the configure script used the
results from a previous invocation -- which means that you didn't do the
"make distclean" of step 3 near the end of the INSTALL file as I
previously advised.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson   <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>