Why ar doesn't call ranlib on Mac?

[Peter O'Gorman]

Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> In building various Linux things from source on Mac, I've run into the
> "archive has no table of contents" problem several times.  The fix is
> invariably to go and stick ranlib after each ar.

What version of Mac OS X/Xcode are you using? ar, since Mac OS X 10.4
does ranlib the archive. I filed a bug at the time asking for the -S
flag to turn off this behavior to speed up creating an archive
incrementally.

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/10.5.6/cctools-667.3/ar/ar.c

Peter
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