Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.parallel.mpi
From: edemaine@ug.cs.dal.ca (Erik Demaine)
Subject: Re: Unify (What is ranlib?)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Date: Sat, 20 May 1995 13:58:14 GMT
Message-ID: <D8vqt3.J1s@cs.dal.ca>

WWF (wongwoon@iscs.nus.sg) wrote:
: 	I'd just downloaded the unify.tar from sesame.hensa.ac.uk and 
: while i was installing it on an indigo workstation, i encountered a fatal 
: error.  It says: "ranlib: command not found".  I'd searched through all 
: my directories but can't seems to locate any file called ranlib.  What 
: actually does this command do?  And where can i get it?  Need more info.....

Typically ranlib should not be a fatal error.  ranlib is a program which
makes a "table of contents" for a library (.a file), however, it is not
required on all systems.  On some systems, this procedure is done automatically
with ar (archive), which is used to create a .a file.  So you should edit the
Makefile(s) and change any "ranlib" to "echo".

Good luck,
Erik
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